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parethmoid

parethmoid adjective: near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals.

Adjective

parethmoid (not comparable)

  1. Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals.

Noun

parethmoid (plural parethmoids)

  1. A parethmoid bone.

Forms of parethmoid

pluralparethmoids

Origin of parethmoid

From para- + ethmoid.

Words that rhyme with parethmoid

Questions about parethmoid

What does parethmoid mean?
Parethmoid means near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals.
What part of speech is parethmoid?
Parethmoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near parethmoid in the dictionary

  1. paresthesiae
  2. paresthesias
  3. paresthesis
  4. paresthetic
  5. pareth
  6. parethmoid
  7. parethmoids
  8. parethoxycaine
  9. Paretian
  10. paretic
  11. paretically

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