Crossword-Solution: DIPLOE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Diploe | n. | The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DIPLOE | anagram | DIPOLE |
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| spongy bone separating the two layers of compact bone of the skull | 1 answer |
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Sentences with DIPLOE (5)
The tough outer table is more difficult to cut than the softer and more vascular diploe, and the inner table is denser than either, but more brittle.
The spongy middle plate must, like the diploe of the skull, have served to deaden the vibrations of a blow dealt from the outside.
The human skull consists of two tables of solid bone, an inner and an outer, with a spongy cellular substance interposed between them, termed the _diploe_; and such is the effect of this arrangement, that the blow which would fracture a continuous wall of bone has its force broken by the spongy intermediate layer, and merely injures the outer table, leaving not unfrequently the inner one, which more especially protects the brain, wholly unharmed.
DIPLOE, dip'l[=o]-[=e], _n._ (_anat._) the spongy tissue between the hard inner and outer tables of the skull.
Its large and heavy character is, as has been stated in the definition of the sub-order, due to the immense development of air cavities in the diploe; the diameter of the wall of the skull is actually greater than that of the cranial cavity.