Defn: The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under Temporal.
SQUAMOSE; SQUAMOUS Squa*mose" or, Squa"mous, Etym: [L. squamosus, fr. squama a scale: cf. F. squameux.]
1. Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.
2. (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.
SQUAMOZYGOMATIC
Squa`mo*zyg`o*mat"ic, a. (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to both the squamosal and zygomatic bones; — applied to a bone, or a center of ossification, in some fetal skulls. — n.
Defn: A squamozygomatic bone.
SQUAMULA Squam"u*la ( or ), n.; pl. Squamulæ. Etym: [L., dim. of squama a scale.] (Bot.)
Defn: One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.