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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anatomy, pertaining to the body or basis of the compound sphenoid bone.
  • noun In anatomy, the centrum of the second cranial segment, or basis, of the compound sphenoid bone, represented in human anatomy by the greater part of the body of the sphenoid (all that part behind the sella turcica), as distinguished from its wings and pterygoid processes, situated in the basicranial axis of the skull, between the basioccipital and the presphenoid.
  • noun In ichthyology, a bone attached to the anterior end of the inner wings of the proötics, which roof the myodome.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) The basisphenoid bone.
  • adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the base of the sphenoid bone, especially to a centre of ossification there in the embryo
  • noun The basisphenoid bone

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