a. and sb. Anat. [f. next + -AL.]
A. adj. 1. Squamosal bone, the squamous bone.
1849–52. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. 940/1. In all the mammalia it articulates … with the squamous element of the temporal—the squamosal bone.
1875. Huxley, in Encycl. Brit., I. 754/1. The T-shaped squamosal bone … sends a broad, flat process inwards.
2. Of or pertaining to the squamous bone.
1863. Huxley, Evid. Man’s Place Nat., III. 142. Notwithstanding the great length of the skull … the squamosal suture is very straight.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. 43. The lower jaw articulates directly with the squamosal element of the cranial walls.
B. sb. The squamosal bone or squamous portion of the temporal bone.
1848. Owen, Homol. Vertebr. Skel., 146. The chief bulk of this segment of the brain is protected … by the intercalated squamosals.
1866. Huxley, Prehist. Rem. Caithn., 86. The upper contour of the squamosal is nearly straight.
1884. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 157. The Squamosal … bounds the brain-box laterally.
