Crossword-Solution: PETROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Petrous | a. | Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone. |
| Petrous | a. | Same as Petrosal. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PETROUS | anagram | POSTURE, POTUSER, POUTERS, PROTEUS, SEPTUOR, SPOUTER, STOREUP, TROUPES |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| denoting the dense part of the temporal bone around the inner ear | 1 answer |
| Hard | 107 answers |
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Sentences with PETROUS (5)
This case is interesting from the novel mode of death, the perfect paralysis of the arm, paralysis agitans of the body (occurring as hemorrhage from the ear came on, and subsiding with it), and extensive caries of the petrous bone, without sensation of pain or any indicative symptoms.
This thin-membraned labyrinth is enclosed in a bony capsule of the same shape, the osseous labyrinth (Figure 2.321), and this lies in the middle of the petrous bone of the skull.
The useless relic of it passes through the wall of the petrous bone in the shape of a narrow canal, and is called the vestibular aqueduct.
The Tympanum or Middle Ear.--This cavity just beyond the drum, which forms the greater part of its outer wall, is an irregular cavity, compressed from without inward and situated in the petrous bone.
With an opening in the anterior of the middle ear, a bony canal passes from this point, inward, forward, and downward through the petrous bone, when it merges into a cartilaginous canal, which terminates in a funnel-shaped protuberance, with a slit-like orifice, located in the nose pharynx.