Word Meanings - CEPHALOSTYLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

Related words: (words related to CEPHALOSTYLE)

• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• SHEATHLESS
  Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
• SHEATHED
  Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate. (more info) 1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
• SHEATHY
  Forming or resembling a sheath or case. Sir T. Browne.
• SHEATH-WINGED
  Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.
• NOTOCHORD
  An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebræ and the posterior part of the base of the skull
• SHEATHFISH
  See SHEATFISH
• CRANIAL
  Of or pertaining to the cranium.
• CARTILAGINOUS
  Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
• SHEATHER
  One who sheathes.
• CRANIA
  A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.
• ANTERIOR
  1. Before in time; antecedent. Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius. Sir G. C. Lewis. 2. Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior. Note: In comparative anatomy, anterior often signifies
• SHEATHE
  Etym: 1. To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case. The leopard . . . keeps the claws of his fore feet turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes. Grew. 'T is in my breast
• ANTERIORLY
  In an anterior manner; before.
• NOTOCHORDAL
  Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord.
• SHEATHING
  from Sheathe. Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
• SHEATHBILL
  Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidæ, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas. Note: They are related to the gulls and the plovers, but more nearly to the latter. The base of the bill is covered
• SHEATH
  OS. skeedhia, D. scheede, G. scheide, OHG. sceida, Sw. skida, Dan. skede, Icel. skeiedhir, pl., and to E. shed, v.t., originally 1. A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• PERICRANIAL
  Of or pertaining to the pericranium.
• INTERCARTILAGINOUS
  Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.
• INSHEATHE
  To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.
• OTOCRANIAL
  Of or pertaining to the otocrane.
• SUBCRANIAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium; facial.
• EPICRANIAL
  Pertaining to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles.
• HEMICRANIA
  A pain that affects only one side of the head.
• INTRACRANIAL
  Within the cranium or skull. Sir W. Hamilton.
• AEGICRANIA
  Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.
• ACRANIA
  Partial or total absence of the skull. 2. pl.
• ACRANIAL
  Wanting a skull.
• SUPRACRANIAL
  Situated above, or in the roof of, the cranium.