| 单词 | rocky bone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrocky bone rocky bone n. [after post-classical Latin os petrosum (1599 or earlier)] Anatomy (now rare or disused) the petrous portion of the temporal bone; cf. rock-bone n. at rock n.1 Compounds 2a(a). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > bones of ear > periotic bone and parts rock-bone1615 rocky bone1615 stony bone1615 petrous1836 otocrane1846 petrosal1846 periotic1865 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 440 Aboue the eares..aboue the bones called petrosa or the rockie bones. 1786 W. Foster Gentleman's Experienced Farrier 132 The cavities which are formed in the midst of the os petrosum, or rocky bone, are three in number. 1839 Lancet 2 Nov. 186/2 An irregularly shaped extremely hard bone, named, on that account, the rocky bone, which, in my System of Anatomy, I consider merely to be the osseous envelop of the otic bulb. 1904 C. Jones Cycle of Life 71 It is contained, on each side, within the hardest bone in the body, called, therefore, the petrous or rocky bone. < as lemmas |
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