stylohyaladj.n.
/stʌɪləʊˈhʌɪəl/ Anatomy.
Epithet of one of the bones of the hyoid arch, constituting in man the styloid process of the temporal bone. Chiefly as n. = stylohyal bone.
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squamous bone?1541
temporal?1541
shaft1552
vaginal process1726
mastoid process1732
supertemporal1834
mastoid1840
stylohyal1846
squamosal1848
squamosal bone1849
tympanohyal1873
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [adjective] > bones of temple
sternomastic1745
stylomastoid1797
mastoid1800
mastoidean1824
mastoidal1828
mastoideal1828
stylohyoid1840
paroccipital1849
bitemporal1850
squamosal1863
stylohyal1880
1846 R. Owen in Rep. Brit. Assoc. i. 236 A slender styliform bone, the ‘stylohyal’.
1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 64 A stylohyal process..may be distinguished.
1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 186 A bone called stylo-hyal, or ‘styloid process of the temporal’.
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