os sphenoidale

Questions about os sphenoidale

What does os sphenoidale mean?

os sphenoidale means "butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull".

What is another word for os sphenoidale?

Close synonyms include sphenoid bone, sphenoid. 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 os sphenoidale a common word?

os sphenoidale 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.