VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / cribriform

Thesaurus: cribriform

Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

sievedefinitionbonedefinitioncompressdefinitionethmoiddefinitionformdefinitionholesdefinitionpierceddefinitionplatedefinitionresemblingdefinitionbotdefinitioncellsdefinitionheredefinitionobliquedefinitionperforateddefinitionplacesdefinitionplatesdefinitiontheredefinitiontransversedefinitioncribratefamilycribrationfamilycribrosefamilycribberneighborcribbin'neighborcribbingneighborcribbleneighborcribbledneighborcribblingneighborcribellumneighbor

Definitions

  1. a. Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.
  2. Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with hokes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.
  3. Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with hokes;as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique ortransverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.
  4. j:100 a. Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.