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- noun Plural form of
mastoid .
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Examples
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I'm often fudging the stern mastoids in my drawings and any tips like this arc of hollows for the neck would be most appreciated.
Arc of Hollows James Gurney 2009
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Gasping for air, his hands to his mastoids, Silk could not even nod.
Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993
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_Of the neck_: The _sterno-mastoids_, which pass between the mastoid processes, back of the ears, and the upper end of the sternum.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The carotid arteries are displaced laterally beneath the sterno-mastoids without detriment; the superficial veins -- anterior and external jugular -- are greatly distended in those cases in which the goitre grows downwards behind the sternum.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Sometimes the crest is double, disposed in parallel ridges, with a deep hollow between; or it is treble, when the two lines of parting running along the mastoids make it remarkably like bears 'ears, the central prism rises high, and the side hair is plaited into little pig-tails.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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All electrodes were referenced off-line to the average of the left and right mastoids.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Stephen M. Emrich et al. 2009
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; half the adult population wakened from bad dreams and routinely discovered little bleeding cuts at the base of their skulls on the mastoids,: exactly the way Hannah had.
Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999
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Sometimes the crest is double, disposed in parallel ridges, with a deep hollow between; or it is treble, when the two lines of parting running along the mastoids make it remarkably like bears’ ears, the central prism rises high, and the side hair is plaited into little pig-tails.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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