parethmoid

English

Etymology

para- +‎ ethmoid

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛθmɔɪd

Adjective

parethmoid (not comparable)

(anatomy) Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals.

Noun

parethmoid (plural parethmoids)

(anatomy) A parethmoid bone.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “parethmoid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

maphrodite