Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anatomy, relating to the temples; temporal: as, the crotaphite depression of the skull, the temporal fossa; the crotaphite muscle, the temporalis.
- noun A temporal muscle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.
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- noun anatomy The
temple ortemporal fossa .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek κρόταφος ("the side of the forehead") + -ite.
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