Definition of Pterygoids

1. pterygoid [n] - See also: pterygoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pterygoids

pteroyl glutamic acid
pteroylglutamic
pteroylglutamic acid
pteroylmonoglutamic acid
pteroyls
pterygia
pterygial
pterygiate
pterygiophore
pterygium
pterygiums
pterygoid
pterygoid muscle
pterygoid plexus
pterygoid process
pterygoids (current term)
pterygomaxillary
pterygopalatine
pterygopodia
pterygopodium
pterygoquadrate
pterygote
pteryla
pterylae
pterylas
pterylographies
pterylography
pteryloses
pterylosis
ptilochronology

Literary usage of Pterygoids

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

1. The Order Microsauria by Robert Lynn Carroll, Pamela Gaskill (1978)
"The pterygoids are always long and highly developed in primitive tetrapods; here, ... Anterior to this point, the two pterygoids meet in a median suture; ..."

2. The Order Microsauria by Robert Lynn Carroll, Pamela Gaskill (1978)
"The pterygoids are always long and highly developed in primitive tetrapods; here, ... Anterior to this point, the two pterygoids meet in a median suture; ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1921)
"The transverse suture of the palatines with the pterygoids is situated altogether ... pterygoids.—The pterygoids are relatively long in proportion their ..."

4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1857)
"The most important secondary connection of the pterygoids in the human adult is with the pterygoid processes of the post-sphenoid ; and it is this ..."

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