English Explanatory Dictionary

parethmoid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. 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
  1. A parethmoid bone.

Word forms

parethmoid parethmoids

Etymology

From para- + ethmoid.

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