Usually means: Bone housing ear, brain structures.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word temporal bone:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. temporal bone: Merriam-Webster
  2. temporal bone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. temporal bone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. temporal bone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. temporal bone: Vocabulary.com
  6. temporal bone: Wordnik
  7. temporal bone: Wiktionary
  8. temporal bone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. temporal bone: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. temporal bone: Dictionary.com
  11. Temporal bone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. temporal bone: Rhymezone
  13. temporal bone: FreeDictionary.org
  14. temporal bone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. temporal bone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. temporal bone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. temporal bone: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bone, temporal, Temporal bone: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Temporal Bone: Anatomy of the Human Body
  6. Glossary of Skeletal Anatomy (No longer online)
  7. temporal bone: Medical dictionary
  8. Bone, temporal, Temporal bone: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (temporal bone)

▸ noun:  Either of two compound bones that collectively make up the sides and base of the skull.

Similar:
os temporale, temporal, parietal bone, parietal, posttemporal, skullbone, occipital bone, frontal bone, squamosal, tympanal, more...

Opposite:
occipital bone, parietal bone, frontal bone

Phrases:
petrous part of temporal bone, squamous part of temporal bone, temporal crest of frontal bone, tympanic part of temporal bone, mastoid part of temporal bone, more...

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Similar:
os temporale, temporal, parietal bone, parietal, posttemporal, skullbone, occipital bone, frontal bone, squamosal, tympanal, more...

Opposite:
occipital bone, parietal bone, frontal bone

Phrases:
petrous part of temporal bone, squamous part of temporal bone, temporal crest of frontal bone, tympanic part of temporal bone, mastoid part of temporal bone, petromastoid part of temporal bone, more...



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