Meanings
adjectivesupratemporal (not comparable)
- not comparableanatomyAbove the temporal lobe
- not comparablehuman sciencesThat transcends time
nounsupratemporal (plural supratemporals)
plural supratemporals
- anatomyA supratemporal bone.
In the absence (e.g., Figs. 31 b, 33, 44, 45, etc.) of the intertemporal and supratemporals, the parietals articulate directly with the squamosals and postorbitals; in the Chelonia (Fig. 30) and Crocodilia, also directly with the pterygoids. Fused in most late reptiles (e.g., Figs. 69, 72).
1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with supratemporal
temporalintertemporalspatiotemporalfrontotemporalatemporalanterotemporalantitemporalauriculotemporalbasitemporalbasotemporalbiotemporalbitemporalcentrotemporalcorticotemporalcotemporaldorsotemporalextratemporalgeotemporalhypertemporalinferotemporalinfratemporalintratemporalisotemporallaterotemporal
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Chicago
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