Pterygoid Definition

tĕrĭ-goid
adjective
Having the form of a wing; winglike.
Webster's New World
Designating, of, or near either of two winglike processes in the skull that descend from the sphenoid bone.
Webster's New World
noun
A pterygoid bone or process.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Pterygoid

Noun

Singular:
pterygoid
Plural:
pterygoids

Origin of Pterygoid

  • Greek pterugoeidēs winglike pterux pterug- wing pet- in Indo-European roots -oeidēs -oid

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

Pterygoid Sentence Examples

  • The quadrate is invariably a conspicuous bone and movably articulating with the cranium and by a special process with the pterygoid.

  • The pterygoids are delicate slender slips of bone attached to the hinder border of the palatines, and supported externally by, and generally welded with, the rough pterygoid plates of the alisphenoid, with no pterygoid fossa between.

  • Foramen by Pt', Pterygoid, anwhich the or terior process.

  • Boulenger, "On the Presence of Pterygoid Teeth in a Tailless Batrachian, with remarks on the Localization of Teeth on the Palate," P.Z.S., 1890, p. 664.

  • Snakes possess teeth in the maxillaries, mandibles, palatine and pterygoid bones, sometimes also in the intermaxillary; they may be absent in one or the ether of the bones mentioned.

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