Definition of Petrosals

1. petrosal [n] - See also: petrosal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Petrosals

petroproduct
petroproducts
petrorevenue
petrosa
petrosal
petrosal bone
petrosal branch of middle meningeal artery
petrosal foramen
petrosal fossa
petrosal fossula
petrosal impression of the pallium
petrosal sinus
petrosal sinus sampling
petrosal vein
petrosalpingostaphylinus
petrosals (current term)
petroselinic
petroselinic acid
petrosilex
petrosilexes
petrosilicious
petrositis
petrosomastoid
petrosomatoglyph
petrosomatoglyphs
petrosphenoid
petrosphenoidal syndrome
petrosphere
petrospheres
petrosquamosal

Literary usage of Petrosals

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practitioner's medical dictionary by George Milbry Gould (1910)
"Facial (Seventh Cranial, Portia Dura), /unction, motion; origin, floor of fourth ventricle; distribution, face, ear, palate, tongue; branches, petrosals, ..."

2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1857)
"Over the position of the temporal centrum, the bones termed petro- eals by the continental anatomists, but by Professor Owen petrosals in the cod, ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: : Exhibiting a View of the Progressive (1857)
"The temporal arch possesses no centrum, but the petrosals, mastoids, and parietals, are placed one over the other as two pairs of ..."

4. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1903)
"... the hind ends of the petrosals, the median process overlapping dorsally the adjoining, mesial edges of the mesial, horizontal wings of the ..."

5. Fieldiana: Geology by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum (1907)
"... with the basisphenoid below, when present, and with the petrosals behind. ... itals and petrosals. While none of the bones were obtained quite complete, ..."

6. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"... into the basioccipital; its expanded part supports the petrosals and ... of its upper surface is commonly rough for articulation with the petrosals and ..."

7. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"... into the basioccipital; its expanded part supports the petrosals and ... of its upper surface is commonly rough for articulation with the petrosals ..."

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