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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

styloid

/stahy-loid/US // ˈstaɪ lɔɪd //UK // (ˈstaɪlɔɪd) //

风格化,风格派

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Botany. resembling a style; slender and pointed.
    • : Anatomy. pertaining to a styloid process.

Examples

  • The ulna should be cut obliquely, leaving the base of the styloid process, and removing all the cartilage-covered portion.

  • The radial styloid is displaced forward, upward, and to the radial side, and the ulnar styloid may be torn off.

  • To inject iodoform, the needle is inserted immediately below the radial or the ulnar styloid process.

  • Ligament wanting; shell gaping, with a styloid apophysis in the umbonal cavities.

  • A styloid process is more or less distinctly visible in the Chimpanzees.

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