sphenoid bone

Questions about sphenoid bone

What does sphenoid bone mean?

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

What is another word for sphenoid bone?

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

sphenoid bone 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.