SPHENOID BONE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull

Synonyms:

os sphenoidale; sphenoid; sphenoid bone

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("sphenoid bone" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Meronyms (parts of "sphenoid bone"):

crotaphion (the tip of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone)

pterygoid process (two bony processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone)

Holonyms ("sphenoid bone" is a part of...):

skull (the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates)