Medical term:
pterygoidei
pterygoid
[ter´ĭ-goid]shaped like a wing.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
pter·y·goid
(ter'i-goyd),Wing-shaped; resembling a wing; a term applied to various anatomic parts relating to the sphenoid bone.
[G. pteryx (pteryg-), wing, + eidos, resemblance]
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
pterygoid
(tĕr′ĭ-goid′)adj.
1. Of, relating to, or located in the region of the sphenoid bone: a pterygoid muscle.
2. Resembling a wing; winglike.
n.
Either of two processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone.
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pterygoid
(1) adjective Wing-shaped.(2) Lateral or medial pterygoid muscle.
(3) Lateral or medial pterygoid process of the sphenoid bone.
(4) A nerve that arises in the trunk of the mandibular nerve and gives rise to the nerve to the tensor tympani and to the tensor veli palatini.
Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
pter·y·goid
(ter'i-goyd)Wing-shaped; resembling a wing; a term applied to various anatomic parts relating to the sphenoid bone.
[G. pteryx (pteryg-), wing, + eidos, resemblance]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
pterygoid
1. Wing-shaped.
2. Pertaining to two processes attached like wings to the body of the SPHENOID bone in the skull.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
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