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mastoid: tags: [anatomy]

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1. {adj} nipple-shaped
2. {n} a small, rough region on the temporal bone where various muscles attach and blood vessels enter the skull.

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The the sickness came, pneumonia, and measles that went to the eyes and to the mastoids.

John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath p.478 (1939)

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