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styloid process

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Styloid \Sty"loid\, a. [Style + -oid: cf. F. stylo["i]de, Gr.
   ?.]
   1. Styliform; as, the styloid process.

   2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.

   {Styloid process} (Anat.), a long and slender process from
      the lower side of the temporal bone of man, corresponding
      to the tympanohyal and stylohyal of other animals.

Source : WordNet®

styloid process
     n : extends from the base of the temporal bone
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