Word Meanings - EPIHYAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.

Related words: (words related to EPIHYAL)

• SEGMENT
  A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration. A piece in the
• CERATOHYAL
  Pertaining to the bone, or carts, large, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch. -- n.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• SEGMENTATION
  The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically , a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation. Segmentation cavity , the cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells
• SEGMENTAL
  1. Relating to, or being, a segment. Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillæ. Of or pertaining to the segmental organs. Segmental duct , the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives
• ABOVEDECK
  On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
• SEGMENTED
  Divided into segments or joints; articulated.
• ABOVE-CITED
  Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
• ABOVE
  1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. 2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in
• SUBHYOIDEAN
  Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.
• BISEGMENT
  One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
• HYOIDEAL; HYOIDEAN
  See A
• DESEGMENTATION
  The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.