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In anatomy, a styloid process (from Greek stylos (στῦλος), "pillar"), usually serving as points of attachment for muscles, refers to the slender, pointed process (protrusion) of:
temporal bone of the skull - Temporal styloid process
radius bone of the lower arm - Radial styloid process
ulna bone of the lower arm - Ulnar styloid process
Third metacarpal - Third metacarpal styloid process
Tibia and Fibula - Tibial process, fibular process.
5th metatarsal of the foot - also known as the tuberosity of the fifth metatarsal
In botany, a styloid is a needle-shaped crystal of calcium oxalate found in some plants. It is a form of raphide.
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Look up styloid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In anatomy, a styloidprocess (from Greek stylos (στῦλος), "pillar"), usually serving as points of...
The temporal styloidprocess is a slender bony process of the temporal bone extending downward and forward from the undersurface of the temporal bone...
The styloidprocess of the ulna is a bony prominence found at distal end of the ulna in the forearm. The styloidprocess of the ulna projects from the...
The radial styloidprocess is a projection of bone on the lateral surface of the distal radius bone. The radial styloidprocess is found on the lateral...
The third metacarpal styloidprocess enables the hand bone to lock into the wrist bones, allowing for greater amounts of pressure to be applied to the...
squamous part, anterior to the mastoid part, and superior to the styloidprocess. The styloid, from the Greek stylos, is a phallic shaped pillar directed inferiorly...
wrist, the ulna has a styloidprocess. Near the elbow, the ulna has two curved processes, the olecranon and the coronoid process; and two concave, articular...
depending on the position of the forearm. It is attached to the distal styloidprocess of the radius by way of the brachioradialis tendon, and to the lateral...
Reichert's cartilage also forms the styloidprocess of the temporal bone. The cartilage between the hyoid bone and styloidprocess will not remain as development...
and the occipital. The mastoid process is located posterior and inferior to the ear canal, lateral to the styloidprocess, and appears as a conical or pyramidal...
is a bilaterally paired muscle of the tongue. It originates at the styloidprocess of the temporal bone. It inserts onto the side of the tongue. It acts...
The stylomastoid foramen is a foramen between the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone of the skull. It is the termination of the facial...
stylohyoid muscle is one of the suprahyoid muscles. Its originates from the styloidprocess of the temporal bone; it inserts onto hyoid bone. It is innervated...
attached to the styloidprocess, tympanic plate, and the ramus of the mandible. The part of the deep lamina extending between the styloidprocess and the mandible...
is a ligament that extends between the hyoid bone, and the temporal styloidprocess (of the temporal bone of the skull). It attaches at the lesser horn...
stylopharyngeus muscle is a muscle in the head. It originates from the temporal styloidprocess. Some of its fibres insert onto the thyroid cartilage, while others...
cervical fascia around the neck. It extends from near the apex of the styloidprocess of the temporal bone to the angle and posterior border of the angle...
concavity, during thumb extension.) The proximal border is formed by the styloidprocess of the radius The distal border is formed by the approximate apex of...
the skull, medial to the mastoid process of the temporal bone - between the mastoid process and the styloidprocess of the temporal bone).[citation needed]...
de Quervain, MD (1868-1940): stenosing tendovaginitis at the radial styloidprocess". J Hand Surg Am. 29 (6): 1164–70. doi:10.1016/j.jhsa.2004.05.019....
the wrist joint) is a rounded cord, attached above to the end of the styloidprocess of the ulna, and dividing below into two fasciculi, one of which is...
also be associated with an elongated styloidprocess (known as Eagle syndrome when the elongated styloidprocess causes symptoms). Carotid artery dissection...