pterygopalatine
adjective
Of or relating to the pterygoid process and the palate or palatine bone.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Robert Knox (1791–1862), anatomist and ethnologist. After French ptérygo-palatin, itself after scientific Latin pterigopalatinus.
- diffractive
- diffractively
- diffractometer
- diffuse
- diffusely
- diffuseness
- diffuser
- diffusible
- diffusion
- diffusional
- diffusionism
- diffusionist
- diffusion line
- diffusion range
- diffusive
- diffusivity
- diffusor
- différance
- dig
- dig a hole for oneself (or dig oneself into a hole)
- Digambara
- digamma
- dig a pit for
- digastric
- digastric muscle