ETHMOID
\ˈɛθmɔ͡ɪd], \ˈɛθmɔɪd], \ˈɛ_θ_m_ɔɪ_d]\
Definitions of ETHMOID
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity
By Princeton University
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one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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1. Resembling a sieve, cribriform. 2. Relating to the ethmoid bone. 3. The ethmoid bone, os ethmoidale.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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Resembling a sieve. Ethmoid bone, a bone at the root of the nose, between the two orbits of the eye.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Perforated with holes like a sieve-applied to the bone of the nose, which is perforated like a sieve for the passage of the olfactory nerves.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Sieve-like; cribriform; also, the ethmoid bone.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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