| 单词 | pterygoid ridge |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspterygoid ridge pterygoid ridge n. (a) a ridge on a pterygoid bone, or formed by such a bone (in the skull of a fish, amphibian, or reptile); (b) the infratemporal crest of the lateral surface of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone, which gives origin to part of the lateral pterygoid muscle (in humans and various other mammals). ΚΠ 1888 Philos. Trans. 1887 (Royal Soc.) B. 178 109 (caption) Pterygoid ridges. 1895 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 24 108 The various processes which afford muscular attachment are large, e.g., jugular processes, spinous processes of sphenoid, styloid processes and pterygoid ridges of sphenoid. 1993 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 340 22/2 All known members of the dentine-plate lineage have pterygoid ridges of this kind. < as lemmas |
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