Thesaurus: ethmoid

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1. a. Alt. of Ethmoidal
2. n. The ethmoid bone.
3. n. one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity
4. (a) Like a sieve; cribriform. (b) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone. Ethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed. The ethmoid bone.
5. j:75/n:25 n. one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity