styloid

styloid /sty·loid/ (sti´loid) resembling a pillar; long and pointed; relating to the styloid process.

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sty·loid (stloid)

n.

Of or relating to any of several slender pointed bone processes, especially the spine that projects from the base of the temporal bone.

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styloid

[stī′loid]

Etymology: Gk, stylos, pillar, eidos, form

long and tapered, like a pen or stylus.

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styloid

long and pointed, like a pen or stylus.

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styloid process

1. a pen-like process, as found at the distal end of the radius and the ulna, or of the auricular cartilage.

2. a small blunt cartilaginous process at the base of the petrous temporal bone.