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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
PTERYGOID
Pter "y *goid, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.] (Anat. )(a ) Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone. (b ) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pterygoid bones, pterygoid processes, or the whole sphenoid bone. -- n.
Defn: A pterygoid bone. Pterygoid bone (Anat. ), a bone which corresponds to the inner plate of the pterygoid process of the human skull, but which, in all vertebrates below mammals, is not connected with the posterior nares, but serves to connect the palatine bones with the point of suspension of the lower jaw. -- Pterygoid process (Anat. ), a process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, an inner and an outer. The posterior nares pass through the space, called the pterygoid fossa, between the processes.
New American Oxford Dictionary
pterygoid process
pter y goid proc ess |ˈteriˌgoid ˈpräˌses, ˈpräsəs ˈtɛrəɡɔɪd ˌprɑsɛs | ▶noun Anatomy each of a pair of projections from the sphenoid bone in the skull. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from modern Latin pterygoides (plural ), from Greek pterux, pterug- ‘wing. ’
Oxford Dictionary
pterygoid process
pterygoid process |ˈtɛrɪgɔɪd | ▶noun Anatomy each of a pair of projections from the sphenoid bone in the skull. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from modern Latin pterygoides (plural ), from Greek pterux, pterug- ‘wing ’.
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