Sphe`neth´moid

(Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal.

Sphenethmoid bone
(Anat.) a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone.

(Anat.) The sphenethmoid bone.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Sphenethmoid (SE) is a clear anatomical marker and a landmark of anterior cranial fossa and middle cranial fossa.

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In the orbitotemporal region, the sphenethmoid commissures, a pair of arched slender cartilaginous rods, extends from the nasal capsule to the planum supraseptale.

Desarrollo embrionario del craneo en la lagartija vivipara Mabuya (Squamata: Scincidae)

Prenasal, internasal, and dermal sphenethmoid absent.

A new species of Osteocephalus (Anura: Hylidae) from Guyana

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