Word Meanings - STYLOMASTOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.

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• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• TEMPORALTY
  1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
• MASTOIDITIS
  Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
• MASTOIDAL
  See MASTOID
• 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
• TEMPORALITY
  1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. 2. The laity; temporality. Sir T. More. 3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from
• TEMPORALLY
  In a temporal manner; secularly. South.
• STYLOID
  Of or pertaining to the styloid process. Styloid process , a long and slender process from the lower side of the temporal bone of man, corresponding to the tympanohyal and stylohyal of other animals. (more info) 1. Styliform; as, the
• MASTOID
  Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear. Pertaining to, or in the region of, the mastoid process; mastoidal.
• TEMPORAL
  Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery. Temporal bone, a very complex bone situated in the side of the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of hearing. It consists of an expanded squamosal
• STYLOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
• STERNOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
• PARAMASTOID
  Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.
• SUPRATEMPORAL
  Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.
• SUPERTEMPORAL
  That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal.
• PRETEMPORAL
  Situated in front of the temporal bone.
• EXTEMPORAL
  Extemporaneous; unpremeditated. B. Jonson. -- Ex*tem"po*ral*ly, adv.
• POST-TEMPORAL
  Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. -- n.
• INFRATEMPORAL
  Below the temple; below the temporal bone.
• PETROMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone, periotic.