Styloid
adjective
1.
Botany. resembling a style; slender and pointed.
2.
Anatomy. pertaining to a styloid process.
adjective
1.
resembling a stylus
2.
(anatomy) of or relating to a projecting process of the temporal bone
styloid sty·loid (stī’loid’)
n.
Of or relating to any of several slender pointed bone processes, especially the spine that projects from the base of the temporal bone.
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