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Petrous

adjective
1.
(of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness.  Synonym: stonelike.





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... Ear*, or labyrinth, occupies a series of irregular channels in the petrous process of the temporal bone.(121) It is very complicated in structure, and at the same time is very small. Its greatest length is not more than three fourths of an inch and its greatest diameter not more than one half of an inch. It is filled with a liquid which at one place is ...
— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.


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