Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a light spongy bone located between the ocular orbits, forming part of the walls and septum of the superior nasal cavity, and containing numerous perforations for the passage of the fibers of the olfactory nerves.
- noun The ethmoid bone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sieve-like; cribriform: in anatomy specifically applied to a bone of the skull. See II.
- Specifically, pertaining to the ethmoid: as, the ethmoid region of the skull.
- noun A bone of the cranium, situated in the middle line of the skull, in advance of the sphenoid, above the basicranial axis, transmitting the filaments of the olfactory nerve, and constituting the bony skeleton of the organ of smell: so called because, in the human subject and mammalia generally, it has a cribriform plate perforated with numerous holes for the passage of the olfactory nerves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The ethmoid bone.
- adjective Like a sieve; cribriform.
- adjective Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone.
- adjective (Anat.) a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling a
sieve . - noun The
ethmoid bone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity
Etymologies
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Again, a line drawn through the axis of the face, between the bones called ethmoid and vomer — the “basifacial axis” (‘f e’.) forms an exceedingly obtuse angle, where, when produced, it cuts the ‘basicranial axis.’
Essays 2007
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In the cribriform plate of the ethmoid are the foramina for the olfactory nerves, and on the posterior part of the roof is the opening into the sphenoidal sinus.
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Below the bulla ethmoidalis and hidden by the uncinate process of the ethmoid is the opening of the maxillary sinus (ostium maxillare); an accessory opening is frequently present above the posterior part of the inferior nasal concha.
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Again, a line drawn through the axis of the face, between the bones called ethmoid and vomer -- the "basifacial axis" ( 'f
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Again, a line drawn through the axis of the face, between the bones called ethmoid and vomer -- the "basifacial axis" ( 'f
On Some Fossil Remains of Man Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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But then that one intern remembered something about a rare condition caused by pressure on the anterior ethmoid nerve in the nose.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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But then that one intern remembered something about a rare condition caused by pressure on the anterior ethmoid nerve in the nose.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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The ethmoid sinuses which are right along the side of your nose and the maxillary sinuses in your cheek.
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“Humans possess a tiny, shiny crystal of magnetite in the ethmoid bone, located between your eyes, just behind the nose.”
Think Progress » Former President Bush Blames ‘Bloggers’ for ‘Ugly’ Political Climate 2006
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