temporal bone

Questions about temporal bone

What does temporal bone mean?

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

What is another word for temporal bone?

Close synonyms include os temporale. 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 temporal bone a common word?

temporal 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.