Words Like SPHENOID
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9 definitions of sphenoid
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A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles; the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.
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Wedge-shaped; wedge-like: specifically, in anatomy, noting certain cranial bones. See II., 2.
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In crystallography, a wedge-shaped crystalline form contained under four equal isosceles triangles. It is the hemihedral form of the square pyramid of the tetragonal system.
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In anatomy, a large and important compound bone of the skull: so called from its shape and connections in man.
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By some authors the term is limited to a form having two faces only, which meet in a wedge-shaped edge. The combination of two complementary forms of this type is then called a bisphenoid. A tetragonal scalenohedron, a form having eight similar triangular faces arranged in symmetrical pairs, has been called a disphenoid.
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In anthropology, a cranium the norma verticalis of which has a wedge-shaped form, the forehead being narrow and the greatest width being near the occiput.
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butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull