ethmoid bone : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ethmoid bone	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ethmoid bone n one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity Synonym(s): ethmoid, ethmoid bone
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ethmoid \Eth"moid\, Ethmoidal \Eth*moid"al\, a. [Gr. [?] like a sieve; [?] sieve + [?] from: cf. F. ethmo[8b]de, ethmo[8b]dal.] (Anat.) (a) Like a sieve; cribriform. (b) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone. {Ethmoid bone} (Anat.), a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed.