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mastoid

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mastoid
1. shaped like a nipple or breast
2. designating or relating to a nipple-like process of the temporal bone behind the ear
3. the mastoid process
4. Informal mastoiditis

mastoid [′ma‚stȯid]
(anatomy)
Breast-shaped.
The portion of the temporal bone where the mastoid process is located.


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Computed tomography (CT) of the temporal bones revealed opacification of the left mastoid and middle ear.
The AOR for cranium-C1 sagittal-plane motion occurs about the mastoid process, varying from the center of the mastoid process, (22) to the anterior mastoid process, (23) to an area slightly dorsal and cranial to the mastoid process.
But the 67-year-old man had no previous hospitalizations in his record and had taken no antibiotics before being prescribed two common drugs to treat his ear infection, which had also spread to his mastoid sinus.
 
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