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Shaped like a bristle
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styloid
Word definitions for styloid in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Styloid \Sty"loid\, a. [Style + -oid: cf. F. stylo["i]de, Gr. ?.] Styliform; as, the styloid process. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process. Styloid process (Anat.), a long and slender process from the lower side of the temporal bone of man, corresponding ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context anatomy English) Of or pertaining to the styloid process; a long and slender process from the lower side of the temporal bone of man, corresponding to the tympanohyal and stylohyal of other animals; styliform.
Usage examples of styloid.
The wound extended from the styloid process directly across to the trapezium, dividing all the muscles and blood-vessels, cutting through bones.
He had his work, the surgery he had studied with only the most casual capsule assistance —coronoid, condyloid, styloid, mastoid, zygomatic arch, coronal suture — that brought him a steadily increasing number of patients as new ailments arose among the poppets, ailments whose diagnosis and treatment were not programmed into the computers.