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Definition of Sphenoids
1. sphenoid [n] - See also: sphenoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphenoids
Literary usage of Sphenoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Popular Guide to Minerals by Louis Pope Gratacap (1912)
"129, Prism, two hemi- pyramids (rhombic sphenoids) ; Fig. ... sphenoids are
produced by the suppression of alternate faces of the pyramid as in the ..."
2. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat by Burton Alexander Randall, George Edmund DeSchweinitz (1901)
"There are three bilateral single sinuses—the antra of Highmore, or maxillary
sinuses, the frontal sinuses, the sphenoids] sinuses, and two bilateral groups ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1857)
"... and the orbito- sphenoids. first place, it may bo questioned whether the corda
dorsalis of the Fish reaches the region of the pre sphenoid; and, ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: : Exhibiting a View of the Progressive (1857)
"... and the orbito- sphenoids. first place, it may be questioned whether the corda
dorsalis of the Fish reaches the region of the pre-sphenoid ; and, ..."
5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1857)
"... these ascending limbs of the bone in question are more intimately connected
with the bones which Professor Owen considers to be the ali-sphenoids, ..."
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