MASTOID BONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mastoid bone mean? 

• MASTOID BONE (noun)
  The noun MASTOID BONE has 1 sense:

1. process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull

  Familiarity information: MASTOID BONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASTOID BONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

mastoid; mastoid bone; mastoid process; mastoidal

Hypernyms ("mastoid bone" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Meronyms (parts of "mastoid bone"):

mastoidale (the craniometric point at the lowest point of the mastoid process)

Holonyms ("mastoid bone" is a part of...):

os temporale; temporal bone (a thick bone forming the side of the human cranium and encasing the inner ear)