a. Anat. and Zool. [ad. mod.L. styloid-es, a. Gr. στῡλοειδής (Galen) like a style, f. στῦλο-ς pillar: see -OID. Cf. F. styloïde.] Resembling a style in shape; styliform. Applied chiefly to several slender pointed processes of bone, e.g., the spine that projects from the base of the temporal bone.
[1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 917. Which runneth from the processe called Styloides vnto the fourth bone of the wrest.
1684. Blancard’s Phys. Dict., Styloeides, are Processes of Bone fashioned backward like a Pencil, fastened into the Basis of the Skull itself.]
1709. Phil. Trans., XXVII. 143. Two Styloid Processes.
1822. J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 72. The styloid projecting axis rises from a depression in the centre.
1846. Owen, in Rep. Brit. Assoc., I. 237. A styloid piece of the os hyoïdes.
1873. G. Fleming, trans. Chauveau’s Comp. Anat. Dom. Anim., 54. By its inferior extremity, the styloid bone is united either to the styloid nucleus or the styloid cornu.
1897. Proc. Zool. Soc., 377. Styloglossus.—This … is by far the best developed of all the styloid muscles in Carnivora.
