Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling a style in shape; slender and pointed: the styloid muscles in carnivores.
- adj. Anatomy Of, relating to, or designating any of several slender, pointed bone processes, especially the spine that projects from the base of the temporal bone.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having some resemblance to a style or pen; like or likened to a style; styliform or stylate: an anatomical term applied to several processes of bone, generally slenderer than those called spines or spinous processes.
Wiktionary
- adj. anatomy Of or pertaining to the styloid process; a long and slender process from the lower side of the temporal bone of man, corresponding to the tympanohyal and stylohyal of other animals; styliform.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Styliform.
- adj. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.
Examples
“The arms were different, appendages in which they could see the bulge of muscle, the ripple of tendons, the knot at the base of the wrist known as the styloid process of ulna.”
“Eventually one may want to compare the qualities of the pulse in three positions so that immediately next to the index finger and over the styloid process is where the middle finger will naturally fall and next to it the ring finger.”
“The position of the middle finger over the styloid process indicates the condition of the middle of the body including the stomach, spleen, and liver.”
“Stryker saw styloid process of ulna suicide attempt with crossbow”
“It is attached by its apex to a depression between the styloid process and the head of the ulna; and by its base, which is thin, to the prominent edge of the radius, which separates the ulnar notch from the carpal articular surface.”
“The position of the wrist-joint can be indicated by drawing a curved line, with its convexity upward, between the styloid processes of the radius and ulna; the summit of the convexity is about 1 cm. above the center of a straight line joining the two processes.”
XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 12. Surface Markings of the Upper Extremity
“The posterior auricular artery (a. auricularis posterior) (Fig. 508) is small and arises from the external carotid, above the Digastricus and Stylohyoideus, opposite the apex of the styloid process.”
“The position of the radial artery in the forearm is represented by a line from the lateral margin of the Biceps tendon in the center of the anticubital fossa to the medial side of the front of the styloid process of the radius when the limb is in the position of supination.”
XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 12. Surface Markings of the Upper Extremity
“It ascends, under cover of the parotid gland, on the styloid process of the temporal bone, to the groove between the cartilage of the ear and the mastoid process, immediately above which it divides into its auricular and occipital branches.”
“The dorsal aspect of its base presents on its radial side a pyramidal eminence, the styloid process, which extends upward behind the capitate; immediately distal to this is a rough surface for the attachment of the Extensor carpi radialis brevis.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘styloid’.
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anatomy etcetera
Funny sounding things found in bodies. Might be split up into several lists later...
zona incerta, mucous membrane, secretomotor, tear film, tear sac, duodenum, horripilation, peduncle, pelvic outlet, canal of Schlemm, visceral, chromosomal cross... and 189 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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Style
A family of terms containing the string *styl that suggest a sense of something columnar or pointed.
Words containing styl- denoting a mode of expression or fashion are excluded from t...monimostylic, streptostylic, styloid, hypostyle, stylet, stylographic, stylobate, peristyle, stylites, metrostyle, peristylium, anastylosis and 32 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "Wound was extensive, having nearly severed the left thumb; laceration extended from base of index finger to two inches above the styloid process of the radius...."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 1376–77 Jan 30, 2010