used as comb. form of SQUAMA, chiefly in terms of Anat. relating to the squamous bones, as squamo-occipital, -parietal, -sphenoidal, -temporal; also in the sense of ‘scaly,’ as squamo-epithelial. Cf. SQUAMOSO-.
1846. Owen, Vertebrate Animals, I. 112. The squamo-temporal bone and the malar bone of higher animals.
1855. Holden, Human Osteology, 93. The squamous part of the temporal is connected … to the great wing of the sphenoid by the ‘squamo-sphenoidal’ suture.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 135. Squamo-epithelial cancer extends to the glands, but not generally to the viscera.
1904. Duckworth, Morphol. & Anthropol., x. 229. The … point of confluence of the lambdoid, squamo-parietal and squamo-occipital sutures.
