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Mastoid

noun
1.
Process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull.  Synonyms: mastoid bone, mastoid process, mastoidal.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to or in the region of the mastoid process.
2.
Relating to or resembling a nipple.  Synonym: mastoidal.



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"Mastoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... whole crowd—it makes one shudder to think of it! Why, I had always a trained nurse, and the regular nurse used to take two baths a day. I insisted on that, and both nurseries were washed out every day with chloride of potash solution, and the iron beds washed every week! And even then Vic had this mastoid trouble, ...
— Mother • Kathleen Norris
... the portion of this whence the cardiac nerves take their origin, and I formed my diagnosis accordingly. In the beginning, the treatment consisted of bilateral ascending (from cilio-spinal centre to both mastoid fossae) galvanizations of the sympathetic, and galvanic baths (head electrode negative, surface board positive, to epigastrium) on alternate days. Improvement in every respect was steady, though not rapid. At the end of three weeks, I supplemented this ...
— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig


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