Definition of Stylo

1. short for stylograph [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stylo

stylists
stylite
stylites
stylitic
stylitism
stylitisms
stylization
stylizations
stylize
stylized
stylizer
stylizers
stylizes
stylizing
styll
stylo (current term)
stylo-
stylobata
stylobate
stylobates
styloglossal
stylograph
stylographic
stylographical
stylographically
stylographies
stylographs
stylography
stylohyal
stylohyals

Literary usage of Stylo

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

1. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"stylo-HYOID NEUVE is the second branch given off by the facial nerve. ... A long and slender process of the temporal bone, to which are attached the stylo- ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The stylo-hyoid is a small, slender muscle, lying in front of, and above, ... The stylo-hyoid Ligament.—In connection with the stylo-hyoid muscle may be ..."

3. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1848)
"It raises the base of the tongue and carries it backwards. stylo- ... stylo-HYOID NERVE is the second branch given off by the facial nerve. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1865)
"It raises the pharynx, and draws up the thyroid cartilage. 2. stylo ... sometimes accompanied by another small muscle resembling it, named by Iones, stylo- ..."

5. A Text Book of Anatomy, and Guide in Dissections: For the Use of Students of by Washington R. Handy (1854)
"87,) arises tendinous and slender from the styloid process near its apex or free extremity, and from the stylo-maxillary ligament, and is inserted in two ..."

6. The Essentials of anatomy by William Darling, Ambrose Loomis Ranney (1880)
"Into the side of the tongue, between the lingualis and stylo- ... To raise and draw backwards the hyoid bone and the tongue. stylo- ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1871)
"This portion of the skull can be distinctly recognized at the spot indicated (te to the anterior and inner side of the stylo-mastoid foramen) in almost ..."

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