pterygoids

Noun

pterygoid (plural pterygoids)

1. A pterygoid part (such as a bone, muscle, or nerve).
   • In the absence (e.g., Figs. 31 b, 33, 44, 45, etc.) of the intertemporal and supratemporals, the parietals articulate directly with the squamosals and postorbitals; in the Chelonia (Fig. 30) and Crocodilia, also directly with the pterygoids. Fused in most late reptiles (e.g., Figs. 69, 72).1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles

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