Usually means: Wedge-shaped bone in skull.
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  1. sphenoid: Merriam-Webster
  2. sphenoid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sphenoid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sphenoid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sphenoid: Vocabulary.com
  6. sphenoid: Wordnik
  7. Sphenoid: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. sphenoid: Wiktionary
  9. sphenoid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sphenoid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sphenoid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sphenoid: Dictionary.com
  13. Sphenoid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sphenoid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sphenoid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sphenoid: Rhymezone
  17. Sphenoid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sphenoid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. sphenoid: FreeDictionary.org
  20. sphenoid: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. sphenoid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sphenoid: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sphenoid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. sphenoid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sphenoid: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. sphenoid: Medical dictionary
  6. Sphenoid: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sphenoid: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sphenoid)

adjective:  Having a wedged shape.
adjective:  (anatomy) Of or relating to the sphenoid bone which forms the base of the cranium, behind the eye and below the front part of the brain. It has two pairs of broad lateral ‘wings’ and a number of other projections, and contains two air-filled sinuses.
noun:  (anatomy) The sphenoid bone.
noun:  (crystallography) A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles; the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.

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