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styloid process

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Noun1.styloid process - extends from the base of the temporal bonestyloid process - extends from the base of the temporal bone
os temporale, temporal bone - a thick bone forming the side of the human cranium and encasing the inner ear
appendage, outgrowth, process - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process"
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Participants were instructed to 'take the arm to as far as they could go' and the distance between T1 and the styloid process was measured.
Passive mobilisation of shoulder region joints plus advice and ... by Chen, Judy F.; Ginn, Karen A.; Herbert, Robert D. / Australian Journal of Physiotherapy
While a majority of the literature reports using the floor-to-wrist crease method, (3,7,12,13) others more specifically point to the ulnar styloid process as a landmark.
Assessment of a new method of cane measurement: a pilot study by Southard, Veronica; Davidson, Kimberly; Shapiro, Rachael; Sita, Gina; Vaccaro, Renee; Walsh, Lauren / Acute Care Perspectives
The carotid artery type occurs when the styloid process becomes involved with the carotid nerve plexus and causes a foreign-body sensation in the pharynx and neck pain on rotation of the head.
Eagle syndrome: case report and review of the literature by Kim, Esther; Hansen, Karla; Frizzi, James / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
 
 
 
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