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Ethmoid   Listen
adjective
Ethmoidal, Ethmoid  adj.  (Anat.)
(a)
Like a sieve; cribriform.
(b)
Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone.
Ethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed.



noun
Ethmoid  n.  (Anat.) The ethmoid bone.






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"Ethmoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... connexions, and is desirous to impress the fact that none is formed without cartilage. From his mention of many minute holes (multa et tenuia foramina) in the recess of the nasal cavities, it is evident that he was acquainted with the perforated plate of the ethmoid bone; and from saying that the straight part of the auditory canal becomes flexuous and terminates in numerous minute cavities (multa et tenuia foramina diducitur), it is inferred by Portal that he ...
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