STYLOID PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does styloid process mean? 

• STYLOID PROCESS (noun)
  The noun STYLOID PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. extends from the base of the temporal bone

  Familiarity information: STYLOID PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STYLOID PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extends from the base of the temporal bone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("styloid process" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("styloid process" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

This bone is located at the base of the tongue and is suspended from the tips of the styloid processes of the temporal bones by the stylohyoid ligaments.

(Hyoid Bone, NCI Thesaurus)