Word Meanings - ORBITOSPHENOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. -- n.

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• ORBITARY
  Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.
• ORBIT
  The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon. 2. An orb or ball. Roll the lucid orbit of an eye. Young.
• ORBITELAE
  A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ORBITOLITES
  A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.
• ORBITOSPHENOID
  Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. -- n.
• SPHENOID
  Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone. Sphenoid bone , an irregularly shaped bone in front of the occipital in the base of the skull of the higher vertebrates. It is composed of several fetal bones which become united the adult. See Alisphenoid,
• ORBITUDE; ORBITY
  Orbation. Bp. Hall.
• SPHENOIDAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a sphenoid. (more info) 1. Sphenoid.
• ORBITONASAL
  Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.
• ORBITAL
  Of or pertaining to an orbit. "Orbital revolution." J. D. Forbes. Orbital index , in the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100.
• ORBITUARY
  Orbital.
• ORBITAR
  Orbital. Dunglison.
• ORBITOSPHENOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.
• PREORBITAL
  a. Situated in front or the orbit.
• SUBSPHENOIDAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• PARASPHENOID
  Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals. -- n.
• EXORBITANTLY
  In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.
• INFRAORBITAL
  Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve.
• ALISPHENOID; ALISPHENOIDAL
  Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.
• EXORBITATE
  To go out of the track; to deviate. Bentley.
• ANTEORBITAL
  See ANTORBITAL
• INTERORBITAL
  Between the orbits; as, the interorbital septum.
• SORBITION
  The act of drinking or sipping.
• EXORBITANT
  to go out of the track; ex out + orbita track: cf. F. exorbitant. See 1. Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive;
• ALISPHENOID
  The alisphenoid bone.
• BASISPHENOID; BASISPHENOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.