sphenoid bone

English

Skull, including sphenoid bone

Skull, including sphenoid bone; front view

Noun

sphenoid bone (plural sphenoid bones)

1. A compound bone at the base of the skull behind the eyes.

Translations

sphenoid bone

• Bulgarian: клиновидна кост (klinovidna kost)
• Catalan: os esfenoide m
• Czech: klínová kost f
• Esperanto: sfenoido
• Estonian: kiilluu
• Finnish: kitaluu (fi)
• Galician: esfenoide (gl) m
• German: Keilbein n
• Hebrew: עצם היתד f (étzem haYatéd)
• Hungarian: ékcsont (hu)
• Japanese: 蝶形骨 (ちょうけいこつ, chōkeikotsu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hestiyê cênîkê m

• Polish: kość klinowa f
• Portuguese: esfenoide m
• Romanian: sfenoid (ro) n
• Russian: клиновидная кость (ru) f (klinovidnaja kostʹ), сфеноид (ru) m (sfenoid)
• Spanish: esfenoide m
• Swedish: kilben n

See also

• bones
• sphenoid bone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia