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Definition of Ethmoid
1. Noun. One of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity.
Generic synonyms: Bone, Os
Group relationships: Braincase, Brainpan, Cranium
Definition of Ethmoid
1. a. Like a sieve; cribriform.
2. n. The ethmoid bone.
Definition of Ethmoid
1. Adjective. Resembling a sieve. ¹
2. Noun. The ethmoid bone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ethmoid
1. a bone of the nasal cavity [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ethmoid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ethmoid
Literary usage of Ethmoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"According to the author, the connexion of the vomer, next in importance to that
with the lateral masses of the ethmoid, is that with the ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"147) forms part of the anterior fossa '•f the base of the skull, and is received
into the ethmoid notch of the frontal b<me between the two orbital plates. ..."
3. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"147) forms part of the anterior fossa of the base of the skull, and is received
into the ethmoid notch of the frontal bone between the two orbital plates. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"THE ANATOMY OF THE OPERATION OF REACHING THE ethmoid CELLS THROUGH THE ANTRUM.
... He found the ethmoid cells also diseased, and treated them likewise from ..."
5. Diseases of the Eye: Handbook of Ophthalmic Practice for Students and by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1903)
"In purulent disease of the ethmoid cells the natural escape for the pus is into
the nasal cavity, where it can be seen beneath the middle ..."
6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"About the fourth year they become fused with the lateral masses of the ethmoid,
and between the ninth and twelfth years they unite with the sphenoid bone. ..."
7. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"from the nose, thoroughly cured by an operation that opened the inner wall of
the orbit, leading into the ethmoid cells, which were scraped out and the ..."
8. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"DE SCHWEIN ITZ. from the nose, thoroughly cured by an operation that opened the
inner wall of the orbit, leading into the ethmoid cells, which were scraped ..."
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