styloid (stiloid)

[L. stylus, prop. stilus, a style (see style1 ), + Gr. εἶδος, form.] Having some resemblance to a style or pen; like or likened to a style; styliform or stylate: an anatomical term applied to several proce es of bone, generally slenderer than those called spines or spinous proce es. - Styloid cornua, the epihyals; the le er bone: called because of their attachment to the stylo hyoid ligament. Styloid proce . See proce and cuts under skull and forearm. temporal bone, and inserted partly into the constrictor muscles of the pharynx, and partly into the posterior border of the thyroid cartilage: it is innervated by the glo opharyngeus. Stylophorum (sti-lof'ō-rum), n. [NL. (Nuttall, 1818), so called from the conspicuous style;