Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Perforated like a sieve.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sieve-like; riddled with small holes.
- The cribriform lamella of the ethmoid, above described.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes.
- adjective (Bot.) those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.
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- adjective
Perforated , as in the manner of asieve .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At the top of the nasal passages is a paper-thin bone called the cribriform plate.
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From there it reaches the brain by passing through a porous barrier called the cribriform plate.
Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998
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From there it reaches the brain by passing through a porous barrier called the cribriform plate.
Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998
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From there it reaches the brain by passing through a porous barrier called the cribriform plate.
Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998
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This bone is called cribriform (sieve-like), because it is perforated by many minute holes, through which, from the olfactory bulbs
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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Where this superficial fascia overlies the saphenous opening, E, of the fascia lata, it assumes a "cribriform" character, owing to its being pierced by numerous lymphatic vessels and some veins.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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A bit of the oxygen, however, can travel along the olfactory nerves (smell nerves) through the cribriform plate (a piece of bone full of tiny holes through which the smell nerves pass to reach the brain), directly to the frontal lobe of the brain.
Breathing for Life 2006
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Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001
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The roof of the orbit again was sometimes very severely damaged by bullets which first traversed that cavity itself; thus in one case which recovered, the bullet passed transversely, smashing both globes, and fracturing the roof of both orbits and the cribriform plate so severely as to lacerate both dura-mater and brain, portions of the latter being found in the orbit on removal of the damaged eyes.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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He recognized that inspiration is associated with enlargement of the chest, and imagined that air passed inside the skull through the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone, and passed out by the same channel, carrying off humours from the brain into the nose.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott
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