ethmoid

1. 1.

   one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity

   Synonymsethmoid bone

   Broaderbone

   Part ofcranium

Other forms of ethmoid

plural

ethmoids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ethmoid

What does ethmoid mean?

ethmoid means "one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity".

How many syllables are in ethmoid?

ethmoid has 2 syllables: eth-moid. The stress falls on "eth".

What is another word for ethmoid?

Close synonyms include ethmoid bone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ethmoid a common word?

ethmoid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.