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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Odontoid  \O*don"toid\,  a.  [Gr.  ?;  'odoy`s,  'odo`ntos,  a  tooth  + 
  ?  form:  cf.F.  odonto["i]de.]  (Anat.) 
  a  Having  the  form  of  a  tooth;  toothlike. 
  b  Of  or  pertaining  to  the  odontoid  bone  or  to  the  odontoid 
  process. 
 
  {Odontoid  bone}  (Anat.),  a  separate  bone,  in  many  reptiles, 
  corresponding  to  the  odontoid  process. 
 
  {Odontoid  process},  or  {Odontoid  peg}  (Anat.),  the  anterior 
  process  of  the  centrum  of  the  second  vertebra,  or  axis,  in 
  birds  and  mammals.  See  {Axis}. 

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