PETRO-BASILAR

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1894 · p. 11

adj. Pe2t-ro-ba2s'il-a3r. From ireYpa, a rock, and /Sao-is. a base. Pertaining to the petrous portion of the temporal bone and the basilar portion of the occipital bone. [L, 332.] [s. 248]