Crossword-Solution: ETHMOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ethmoid | a. | Alt. of Ethmoidal |
| Ethmoid | n. | The ethmoid bone. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “ETHMOID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BONE with olfactory nerves passing through its perforations | 1 answer |
| SIEVE-like bone | 1 answer |
| denoting or relating to a specific bone of the skull | 1 answer |
| nasal bone | 4 answers |
| CRANIAL BONE | 16 answers |
| SKULL bone | 20 answers |
| BONE of the human body | 41 answers |
| Bone | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ETHMOID (5)
Furthermore, the plane of the occipital foramen ('b c') forms a somewhat smaller angle with the axis in these particular prognathous skulls than in the orthognathous; and the like may be slightly true of the perforated plate of the ethmoid--though this point is not so clear.
The ethmoid bone of the horse or the ox may be removed from its situation with little injury; but that of the dog can scarcely be meddled with without fracture.
Below it are the two turbinated bones; but they are reduced to insignificance by the bulk of the ethmoid bone.
The scent of the dog is not sacrificed or impaired by the apparent diminution of the nasals; for the cavity enlarges considerably upward, and is occupied chiefly by the 'ethmoid bone', which, having the greater portion of nervous pulp spread on it, seems to have most to do with the sense of smell.
While it is white and without smell, and the dog is not too much emaciated, the termination may be favourable; but when it becomes of a darker colour, and mingled with blood, and offensive, the ethmoid or turbinated bones are becoming carious, and death supervenes.