Word Meanings - STYLOHYAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.

Related words: (words related to STYLOHYAL)

• 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
• 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
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• EPIHYAL
  A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.
• TYMPANOHYAL
  Of or pertaining to the tympanum and the hyoidean arch. -- n.
• SEGMENTED
  Divided into segments or joints; articulated.
• SUBHYOIDEAN
  Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.
• BISEGMENT
  One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• HYOIDEAL; HYOIDEAN
  See A
• DESEGMENTATION
  The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.