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petrous

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness

How To Use petrous In A Sentence

  • Objective To explore the diagnosis and surgical treatment methods for petrous apex cholesterol granulomas.
  • The normal course of the internal carotid artery in an adult sees the vessel enter the petrous temporal bone medial to the styloid process via the carotid canal.
  • It is bounded in front by the posterior margins of the small wings of the sphenoid, the anterior clinoid processes, and the ridge forming the anterior margin of the chiasmatic groove; behind, by the superior angles of the petrous portions of the temporals and the dorsum sellæ; laterally by the temporal squamæ, sphenoidal angles of the parietals, and great wings of the sphenoid. II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull
  • Caudal to the temporal lobe is the petrous portion of the temporal bone and the mastoid air cells.
  • Chinese petrous picture are classified into four types: noumenal symbols, simulative symbols, symbolic symbols and behavioral symbols.
  • CT of the petrous temporal bones demonstrated opacification of the left mastoid air cells and left middle ear cavity.
  • The temporal bone is the first bone to be affected, with imminent involvement of the petrous apex and mastoid.
  • Drilling begins directly over the bisection of the angle between the greater superficial petrosal nerve and arcuate eminence and the dura of IAC is exposed beneath the petrous ridge.
  • Its lateral half articulates, by means of a synchondrosis, with the petrous portion of the temporal, and between the two bones on the under surface of the skull, is a furrow, the sulcus tubæ, for the lodgement of the cartilaginous part of the auditory tube. II. Osteology. 5a. 5. The Sphenoid Bone
  • A skull X-Ray revealed a fracture of the right petrous temporal bone.
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