Crossword-Solution: STYLOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Styloid | a. | Styliform; as, the styloid process. |
| Styloid | a. | Of or pertaining to the styloid process. |
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| Shaped like a bristle | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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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
EAMZEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with STYLOID (5)
The wound extended from the styloid process directly across to the trapezium, dividing all the muscles and blood-vessels, cutting through bones.
From the first part or base of the second branchial arch we get, in the mammals, the third ossicle of the ear, the stirrup; and from the succeeding parts we get (in this order) the muscle of the stirrup, the styloid process of the temporal bone, the styloid-hyoid ligament, and the little horn of the hyoid bone.
Turn the hand over with the palm upwards, and the edge of the _ulna_ can be felt from the olecranon to the prominent knob (styloid process) at the wrist.
While an assistant draws up the skin as much as possible, the surgeon makes an accurate circular incision through the skin, about an inch below the styloid processes, just grazing the thenar and hypothenar eminences.
Another circular sweep just above the pisiform and unciform bones divides all the soft textures, after which the joint may be opened, and, if necessary, the styloid processes cut away with saw or pliers.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1989).