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PTERYGOID PROCESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pterygoid process mean?
• PTERYGOID PROCESS (noun)
The noun PTERYGOID PROCESS has 1 sense:
1. two bony processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone
Familiarity information: PTERYGOID PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Two bony processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("pterygoid process" is a kind of...):
appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)
Holonyms ("pterygoid process" is a part of...):
os sphenoidale; sphenoid; sphenoid bone (butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull)
Context examples
An irregularly shaped bone positioned at the back part of the nasal cavity between the maxilla and the pterygoid process of the sphenoid.
(Palatine Bone, NCI Thesaurus)
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