styloid process

noun

, Anatomy.

1. a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.

Word History and Origins

Origin of styloid process¹

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

Eagle syndrome occurs when a piece of bone called a styloid process, which extends from the skull into the ear, presses on or irritates adjacent structures, including the glossopharyngeal nerve.

From Washington Post

The styloid process helps the hand bone lock into the wrist bones, allowing for greater amounts of pressure to be applied to the wrist and hand from a grasping thumb and fingers.

From BBC

The ulna terminates below in a head and a styloid process; these articulate with the two last bones of the first row of the carpus—viz., the cuneiform and pisiform.

From Project Gutenberg

Less frequently they take origin in the second cleft, and lie below the mastoid process, in which case the cyst is adherent either to the mastoid or to the styloid process.

From Project Gutenberg

Another circular sweep just above the pisiform and unciform bones divides all the soft textures, after which the joint may be opened, and, if necessary, the styloid processes cut away with saw or pliers.

From Project Gutenberg