quadratojugular

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noun

A bone found in some reptiles, amphibians, and birds in front of the quadrate at the base of the temporal fossa.

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Meanings

nounquadratojugular (plural not attested)
  1. no pluralA bone found in some reptiles, amphibians, and birds in front of the quadrate at the base of the temporal fossa.

    It could not have participated in the formation of the lateral temporal foramen; that office was reserved to the quadratojugular lying in front of it, which in its turn is connected again with the peculiarly shaped jugular.

    1900 November, Charles E. Beecher, “Restoration of Stylonurus Lacanus, A Giant Arthropod from the Upper Devonian of the United States”, in Geological Magazine, volume 7, number 11, page 490

Origin

From quadrato- + jugular.

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