styloid process 茎突
styloid process[ noun ]
extends from the base of the temporal bone
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Styloid \Sty"loid\, a. [Style + -oid: cf. F. stylo["i]de, Gr.
?.]
1. Styliform; as, the styloid process.
2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.
{Styloid process} (Anat.), a long and slender process from
the lower side of the temporal bone of man, corresponding
to the tympanohyal and stylohyal of other animals.