Mastoid Definition

măstoid
noun
The mastoid projection.
Webster's New World

Mastoiditis.

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adjective
Relating to the mastoid process.
American Heritage Medicine
Shaped like a breast or nipple.
Webster's New World
Designating, of, or near a projection of the temporal bone behind the ear.
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Other Word Forms of Mastoid

Noun

Singular:
mastoid
Plural:
mastoids

Origin of Mastoid

  • New Latin mastoīdēs nipple-like, mastoid (from its shape) from Greek mastoeidēs mastos breast -oeidēs -oid

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mastax, “jaws, what chews")

    From Wiktionary

  • From Ancient Greek μαστός (mastos, “breast")

    From Wiktionary

Mastoid Sentence Examples

  • They have long hind limbs, large eyes and ears; and in correlation with the latter an enlarged auditory bulla to the skull, which is hollow and divided into a tympanic and a mastoid portion.

  • In the highly specialized mastoid region of the skull, the North American Oligocene Protoptychus approaches to Dipopodomys, while the contemporary Gymnoptychus and Entoptychus likewise appear referable to the Geomyidae.

  • Neanderthals also had a pronounced series of bony crests on their mastoid process, located just behind their ears.

  • Infection of the mastoid air cells is called mastoid air cells is called mastoiditis.

  • The patient wears headphones when air conduction is tested and a vibrating earpiece behind the ear next to the mastoid bone or along the forehead when bone conduction is tested.

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