See Also: pyriform(medicine)
pyriform(dictionary)
pyriform apparatus(medicine)
pyriform aperture wiring(medicine)

stound (iou) and pyriform (iou)


stound (iou)



stound verb2 trans. obsolete exc. Scot. & dial. ME.
[Aphet. from ASTOUND verb.]
Stun; stupefy, bewilder.

pyriform (iou)



pyriform adjective. Also piriform. M18.
[mod. Latin pyriformis, from pyrum misspelling of pirum pear: see -FORM.]
Chiefly Anatomy. Pear-shaped.
pyriform fossa either of two depressions on each side of the opening to the larynx. pyriform muscle a hip muscle which rotates the extended thigh laterally and abducts the flexed thigh.