Word Meanings - SPHENOIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or resembling, a sphenoid. (more info) 1. Sphenoid.

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• 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,
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• 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
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• SPHENOIDAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a sphenoid. (more info) 1. Sphenoid.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• SUBSPHENOIDAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• POSTSPHENOID
  Of or pertaining to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.
• ORBITOSPHENOID
  Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. -- n.
• PRESPHENOID
  Situated in front of the sphenoid bone; of or pertaining to the anterior part of the sphenoid bone . Presphenoid bone , the anterior part of the body of the sphenoid bone in front of the basisphenoid. It is usually a separate bone in the young
• SUPERSPHENOIDAL
  Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
• PRESPHENOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to the presphenoid bone; presphenoid.
• SUPRASPHENOIDAL
  Situated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body.
• BASISPHENOID
  The basisphenoid bone.