Definition of Ethmoids

1. Noun. (plural of ethmoid) ¹

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Definition of Ethmoids

1. ethmoid [n] - See also: ethmoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ethmoids

ethmoidal crest of palatine bone
ethmoidal foramen
ethmoidal groove
ethmoidal infundibulum
ethmoidal labyrinth
ethmoidal notch
ethmoidal process
ethmoidal sinus
ethmoidal vein
ethmoidal veins
ethmoidale
ethmoidectomy
ethmoiditis
ethmoidolacrimal suture
ethmoidomaxillary suture
ethmoids (current term)
ethmolacrimal
ethmomaxillary
ethmonasal
ethmopalatal
ethmosphenoid
ethmoturbinal
ethmoturbinals
ethmovomerine
ethmovomerine plate
ethn-
ethnarch
ethnarchies
ethnarchs
ethnarchy

Literary usage of Ethmoids

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

1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"ethmoid, and while distinctly separated from the anterior ethmoids in health, ... The ethmoids, as before indicated, are invariably the first attacked ..."

2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"ethmoid, and while distinctly separated from the anterior ethmoids in health, ... The ethmoids, as before indicated, are invariably the first attacked ..."

3. Brain Abscess: Its Surgical Pathology and Operative Technic by Wells Phillips Eagleton (1922)
"As the ethmoid mucous membrane is separated from the dura only by a thin layer of compact bony tissue, suppuration of the ethmoids would naturally be ..."

4. Outlines of Chordate Development by William Erskine Kellicott (1913)
"(d) The ethmoids which form as vertical elements in the anterior part of the inner ... later the two ethmoids unite above and below, forming a band-like ..."

5. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1903)
"7), in which the so-called ethmoids of certain other fishes were compared with that of Amia. In that work I stated my opinion that the two bones in Esox ..."

6. A Course in Vertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1905)
"In front of the orbits and directly above the vomer are the median ethmoid and the two lateral ethmoids, which are cartilage bones forming the anterior end ..."

7. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"... perhaps formed by coalesced ecto-ethmoids: in Polypterus two sphenoidal bones and ecto-ethmoids ..."

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