mastoid

About 0.78 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Being the process of the temporal bone behind the ear. Being any of several bony elements that occupy a similar position in the skull of lower vertebrates.
2. adjective Being any of several bony elements that occupy a similar position in the skull of lower vertebrates.
3. adjective Of or relating to the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
4. adjective Shaped like a nipple.
5. noun Ellipsis of mastoid process.
6. noun Clipping of mastoiditis.

Similar words

mastoidal mastoid process antrum tegmen sterno cleido tympanomastoid petrous bimastoid parietomastoid

Often followed by

process cells muscle and air antrum operation bone processes

Word family

mastoids