os temporale

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Noun

1.os temporale - a thick bone forming the side of the human cranium and encasing the inner eartemporal bonebone, os - rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebratesglenoid fossa, mandibular fossa - a deep concavity in the temporal bone at the root of the zygomatic arch that receives the condyle of the mandibletympanic bone - the bone enclosing the middle earbraincase, brainpan, cranium - the part of the skull that encloses the brainmastoid, mastoid bone, mastoid process, mastoidal - process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skullstyloid process - extends from the base of the temporal bone