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Wedge-shaped; as, a sphenoid crystal.

Sphenoid.

The alisphenoid bone.

Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

The basisphenoid bone.

r pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.

Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.

Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.

Situated in front of the sphenoid bone; of or pertaining to the anterior part of the sphenoid bone (i. e., the presphenoid bone). Presphenoid bone (Anat.), the anterior part of the body of the sphenoid bone in front of the basisphenoid. It is usually a separate bone in the young or fetus, but becomes a part of the sphe…

Of or pertaining to the presphenoid bone; presphenoid.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.

Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.

Situated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body.

Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone.

Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.

A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.

bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid. -- n.

Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone.