Usually means: Hard, dense part of temporal.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. petrous: Merriam-Webster
  2. petrous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. petrous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. petrous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. petrous: Vocabulary.com
  6. petrous: Wordnik
  7. petrous: Wiktionary
  8. petrous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. petrous: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. petrous: Dictionary.com
  11. Petrous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. petrous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. petrous: Rhymezone
  14. Petrous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. petrous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. petrous: FreeDictionary.org
  17. petrous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. petrous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. petrous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. petrous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. petrous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. petrous: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (petrous)

▸ adjective:  Resembling rock or stone in its hardness.
▸ adjective:  (anatomy) Of the dense portion of the temporal bone that protects the inner ear.

Similar:
stonelike, hard, petrosal, Stony, granitelike, petrean, stone, flintlike, rock hard, granitiform, more...

Opposite:
unpetrous, non-petrous, soft

Types:
dog, cat, bird, reptile, rodent, fish, arthropod, mollusk, cnidarian, more...

Phrases:
petrous bone, petrous portion, petrous pyramid, petrous part, petrous ridge, more...

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Similar:
stonelike, hard, petrosal, Stony, granitelike, petrean, stone, flintlike, rock hard, granitiform, more...

Opposite:
unpetrous, non-petrous, soft

Types:
dog, cat, bird, reptile, rodent, fish, arthropod, mollusk, cnidarian, more...

Phrases:
petrous bone, petrous portion, petrous pyramid, petrous part, petrous ridge, petrous ganglion, petrous part of temporal bone, petrous line, petrous temporal bone, Petrous part of the temporal bone, more...



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