mastoid

The mastoid process.

Of or relating to the mastoid process.

Shaped like a breast or nipple.

Same as pterotic.

Teat-like; shaped like a nipple: specifically applied in anatomy to a part or process of the temporal bone, from its shape in man. See below.

The mastoid part or process of the temporal bone: in adult man, a conical nipplelike bony prominence below and behind the orifice of the ear, to which the sternoclido-mastoid, trachelomastoid, digastric, and other muscles are attached, and which is grooved for the passage of the occipital artery.

A distinct bone of the skull of some of the lower vertebrates, regarded by Owen as homologous with the mammalian mastoid.

Resembling the nipple or the breast; — applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear.

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the mastoid process; mastoidal.

Shaped like a breast or nipple.