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Mastoid

noun

Process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull. Synonyms: mastoid bone, mastoid process, mastoidal.

adjective

Of or relating to or in the region of the mastoid process.

Relating to or resembling a nipple. Synonym: mastoidal.

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... canal passing from a mucous surface to the skin or to another mucous surface. Fistulae resulting from suppuration usually occur near the natural openings of mucous canals—for example, on the cheek, as a salivary fistula; beside the inner angle of the eye, as a lacrymal fistula; near the ear, as a mastoid fistula; or close to the anus, as a fistula-in-ano. Intestinal fistulae are sometimes met with in the abdominal wall after strangulated hernia, operations for appendicitis, tuberculous peritonitis, and other conditions. In the perineum, ...

— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

... infection which the fever he caught in Brazil left in his system. It manifested itself in different ways and the one thing certain was that it could not be cured. He paid little attention to it except when it actually sent him to bed. In the winter of 1918, it caused so serious an inflammation of the mastoid that he was taken to the hospital and had to undergo an operation. For several days his life hung by a thread. But, on his recovery, he went about as usual, and the public was scarcely aware of his lowered condition. He wrote and spoke, and ...

— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer

... sterno-mastoids, which pass between the mastoid processes, back of the ears, and the upper end of the sternum. They assist in turning the head and may be felt at the sides of the ...

— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.