See Also: Pterygoid(medicine)
pterygoid pit(medicine)
pterygoid(dictionary)
pterygoid fissure(medicine)
pterygoid fossa(medicine)
pterygoid fovea(medicine)
pterygoid hamulus(medicine)
pterygoid laminae(medicine)
pterygoid muscles(medicine)
pterygoid nerve(medicine)

mousetrap (iou) and Pterygoid (medicine)


mousetrap (iou)



mousetrap noun & verb. LME.
[from MOUSE noun + TRAP noun1.]
A. noun.
A trap for catching mice; fig. a device for enticing a person to destruction or defeat. LME.
T. Middleton Like a mouse-trap baited with bacon. M. R. D. Foot The agents taken in the Villa des Bois mousetrap..were in the noisome Beleyme prison.
More fully mousetrap cheese. Cheese for baiting a mousetrap; poor quality cheese. M17.
Times Farm cheddar that will dazzle the tastebuds accustomed to factory mousetrap.
A very small house. joc. M19.
b. verb trans. Infl. -pp-. Catch (as) in a mousetrap; entice (a person) to destruction or defeat. L19.

Pterygoid (medicine)


pterygoid
<anatomy> Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pterygoid bones, pterygoid processes, or the whole sphenoid bone.

A pterygoid bone.

<anatomy> Pterygoid bone, a process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, an inner and an outer. The posterior nares pass through the space, called the pterygoid fossa, between the processes.

Origin: Gr, a wing.

Source: Websters Dictionary