SPHENETHMOID

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal. Sphenethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone.

2.
n.

The sphenethmoid bone.


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