ETHMOID

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1892 · p. 36

adj. EHh'moid. Gr., ijfyuifiijs (from ijfytos, a sieve, and elSos, resemblance). Lat., ethmodes. Fr., ethmo'ide. Ger., siebformig. Sieve-like (see E. BONE). [A, 322 (o, 21).] [s. 763]