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n. The mastoid process.

adj. Of or relating to the mastoid process.

adj. Shaped like a breast or nipple.

adj. Of or relating to the mastoid process.

n. The mastoid process.

adj. Shaped like a breast or nipple.

adj. Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear.

adj. Pertaining to, or in the region of, the mastoid process; mastoidal.

Teat-like; shaped like a nipple: specifically applied in anatomy to a part or process of the temporal bone, from its shape in man. See below.

n. The mastoid part or process of the temporal bone: in adult man, a conical nipplelike bony prominence below and behind the orifice of the ear, to which the sternoclido-mastoid, trachelomastoid, digastric, and other muscles are attached, and which is grooved for the passage of the occipital artery.

n. A distinct bone of the skull of some of the lower vertebrates, regarded by Owen as homologous with the mammalian mastoid.

n. Same as pterotic.

adj. relating to or resembling a nipple

n. process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull

adj. of or relating to or in the region of the mastoid process

"It is perforated by numerous foramina; one of these, of large size, situated near the posterior border, is termed the mastoid foramen; it transmits a vein to the transverse sinus and a small branch of the occipital artery to the dura mater."

process    appendage    outgrowth   

mastoid disease    mastoid artery    mastoid empyemia    mastoid muscle    mastoid sinus   

mastoidal    mastoiditis    mastoidectomy   

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