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Meaning of STYLOID

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Sty"loid\, a. [Style + -oid: cf. F. stylo["i]de, Gr.
?.]
1. Styliform; as, the styloid process.
2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.
{Styloid process} (Anat.), a long and slender process from
   the lower side of the temporal bone of man, corresponding
   to the tympanohyal and stylohyal of other animals.
 
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