Crossword-Solution: PARASPHENOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parasphenoid | a. | Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals. |
| Parasphenoid | n. | The parasphenoid bone. |
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| a bone of the skull, part of the cranial floor | 1 answer |
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Sentences with PARASPHENOID (5)
Hertwig considered that the following bones were originally formed by coalescence of teeth--parasphenoid, vomer, palatine, pterygoid, the tooth-bearing part of the pre-maxillary, the maxillary, the dentary and certain bones of the hyo-mandibular skeleton of Teleosts.
There is no parasphenoid in the mammal*; and, instead, a complete series of ossifications, the median-, basi-, and pre-sphenoids, and the lateral ali- and orbito-sphenoids occur.
The void area medial to the palatine and anterior to the pterygoid does not fit any bone which we can recognize as the parasphenoid.
The parasphenoid differs from that of _Rhabdoderma elegans_ (Newberry) in being more flared and widened anteriorly and more concave centrally.
The orientation of the complex in the living fish was probably oblique, with the processus ascendens nearly vertical, the quadrate oblique, and the ventral process of the endopterygoid extending dorsoanteriorly and articulating with the parasphenoid.