| 释义 |
sphenotic, a. and n. Zool.|sfɪˈnɒtɪk|
[f. spheno- + otic a.]
a. adj. Of or pertaining to, formed by combination of, the sphenoid bone and otic structures in certain fishes and in birds.
b. n. The sphenotic bone or ossification.
1872Mivart Anat. 106 It may also, in Fishes, have added to it a large and distinct ossification, the sphenotic. 1884Coues N. Amer. Birds 156 The post-frontal process, morphologically the post-frontal or sphenotic bone, bounds the rim of the orbit behind. 1885Athenæum 13 June 764/1 He attempted to show..that the human lingulæ are homologous with the sphenotic of the bird. 1895Proc. Zool. Soc. 371 The sphenotic process is also relatively somewhat shorter. |