Cribratores (kribratorez)

pl. [NL., lit. sifters, L. cribrare, pp. cribratus, sift: see crib rate.] In Macgillivray's cla ification, an order of birds, the sifters, as the geese and ducks: equivalent to the family Anatidæ, or the anserine birds: so named from their manner of feeding as it were by sifting or straining edible substances from the water by means of their lamellate bills. [Not in use.] cribriform (krib'ri-fôrm), a. [= F. crib rif or me, form.] Sieve-like; riddled with small holes. Specifically applied, in an at.: (a) To the horizontal lamella of the ethmoid bone, which is perforated with many small openings for the pa age of the filaments of the olfactory nerve from the cavity of the cranium into that of the nose. See cut under nasal. (b) To the deep layer of the superficial fascia of the thigh in the site of the saphenous opening, pierced for the pa age of small ve els and nerves.Cribriform plate. (a) In echinoderms, a finely porous dorsal interradial plate through the orifices of which the genital glands open upon the surface, as in many starfishes. (b) The cribriform lamella of the ethmoid, above described. Cribrilina (krib-ri-li'nä), n. [NL.) The typical genus of Cribrilinida.