Ethmoid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or being a light spongy bone located between the orbits, forming part of the walls and septum of the superior nasal cavity, and containing numerous perforations for the passage of the fibers of the olfactory nerves.
  • n. The ethmoid bone.
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  • adj. Resembling a sieve.
  • n. The ethmoid bone.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Like a sieve; cribriform.
  • adj. Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone.
  • n. The ethmoid bone.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Sieve-like; cribriform: in anatomy specifically applied to a bone of the skull. See II.
  • Specifically, pertaining to the ethmoid: as, the ethmoid region of the skull.
  • n. A bone of the cranium, situated in the middle line of the skull, in advance of the sphenoid, above the basicranial axis, transmitting the filaments of the olfactory nerve, and constituting the bony skeleton of the organ of smell: so called because, in the human subject and mammalia generally, it has a cribriform plate perforated with numerous holes for the passage of the olfactory nerves.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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
    • Equivalent
    ethmoidal   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    os    bone   
    Cross Reference
    ethmoid crest    lateral ethmoid   
    Form
    ethmoid bone    ethmoidal    ethmoid sinus   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cribriform   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sphenoid    well-gnawed    aitch    fibu-lar    sesamoid   
     
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