os temporale

Questions about os temporale

What does os temporale mean?

os temporale means "a thick bone forming the side of the human cranium and encasing the inner ear".

What is another word for os temporale?

Close synonyms include temporal 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 os temporale a common word?

os temporale 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.