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odontoid |
1 definition found 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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