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A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sphenoid bone; as in sphenomaxillary, sphenopalatine.
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Situated in front of the sphenoid bone; of or pertaining to the anterior part of the sphenoid bone (i. e., the presphenoid bone).
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Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone.
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Pertaining to, or resembling, a sphenoid.
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The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.
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Of or pertaining to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.
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Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
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Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals.
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Situated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body.
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Sphenoid.
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Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal.
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Wedge-shaped; as, a sphenoid crystal.
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A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles. It is the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.
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The orbitosphenoid bone, which is situated in the orbit on either side of the presphenoid. It generally forms a part of the sphenoid in the adult.
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Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone.
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Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone.
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The sphenoid bone.
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Pertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid.
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Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
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Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pterygoid bones, pterygoid processes, or the whole sphenoid bone.
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