parethmoid

Meaning

1. adjective Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals.
2. noun A parethmoid bone.

Similar words

ethmopalatine sphenoethmoid basiethmoid frontoethmoidal ethmoturbinate parietomastoid mesopterygoid dermethmoid parietosquamosal posttemporal