mastoid process

The mastoid process will appear as the tympanic cavity continues to grow.

The external occipital protuberance and mastoid processes are more developed.

The mastoid process is absent or rudimentary in the neonatal skull.

The voice of the great black horse behind him sounded through the earphone implanted in his mastoid process.

Rinker's bat came up, and she hit Dale again, this time in the mastoid process behind the left ear.

In this test, a vibrating tuning fork is placed behind the ear, on the mastoid process.

Damage to the horizontal branch during surgery can lead to partial mastoid process paralysis.

The gracile brow ridge and smallish mastoid process indicated a woman.

Rod picked up the great black horse's voice through an earphone imbedded in his mastoid process.

Rod heard him through the earphone embedded in his mastoid process, behind his ear.

Battle's sign - is ecchymosis of the mastoid process of the temporal bone.

Males generally have more pronounced brow ridges, nuchal crests, and mastoid processes.

After recording, they re-referenced the data to several commonly-used reference electrode sites, including the nose and mastoid process.

The cat did however have an enlarged mastoid process, a muscle attachment at the base of the skull, which attaches to neck muscles.

The splenius capitis is deep to sternocleidomastoideus at the mastoid process, and to the trapezius for its lower portion.

A disease that involves caries is mastoiditis, an inflammation of the mastoid process, in which the bone gets eroded.

"Turn toward the sea, Rod," the robot's voice murmured through the ear-phone set in Rod's mastoid process.

It lies below the body of the mandible, and extends, in a curved form, from the mastoid process to the symphysis menti.

The angle of the mandible, the mastoid process of the right temporal, and much of the occipital are not present.

The temporal bone contains another protrusion, the styloid process, located in close proximity to the mastoid process.

It is located posterior to the mandibular ramus and in front of the mastoid process of temporal bone.

Mr. Krigbaum explained that males tend to be more robust in the brow ridge, the mastoid process behind the ear and the lower jaw.

Bolan loped forward and whipped the knife edge of his right hand into the mastoid process behind the sentry's right ear.

The smooth forehead and occiput, slender cheekbones, and small mastoid processes told me that bachelor number three was clearly of my own gender.

If left untreated, the cholesteatoma can erode into the mastoid process, producing mastoiditis, as well as other complications.