mastoid bone

Mastoiditis: Infection of the mastoid bone, just behind the ear.

Its voice sounded through a small earphone buried in Rod's mastoid bone.

There are some openings in the mastoid bone.

Mastoiditis is a bacterial infection of the mastoid bone.

If the bony lump behind the ear (mastoid bone) becomes tender or red.

Similar leads tapped the mastoid bone for sound conduction.

More data whispered against his mastoid bone.

In acute mastoiditis, infection may spread outside of the mastoid bone and cause serious health complications.

This angulation prevents overlap of images of two mastoid bones.

The tumor appears as a soft tissue mass usually within a well-aerated mastoid bone.

The mastoid bone usually contains some openings.

Information whispered into her mastoid bone.

Charas touched the point on her mastoid bone and inclined her head positively.

The mastoid bone, which sits behind the ear, consists of air spaces that help drain the middle ear.

"The people themselves have computers, typically embedded systems," Maggie said, unconsciously rubbing the mastoid bone behind her ear.

Before the advent of antibiotics it could only be drained by drilling a hole in the mastoid bone, a process known as mastoidectomy.

The mastoid bone is completely ossified, lacking the openings that are present in most species of the genus.

The mastoid periosteum is then elevated from the underlying mastoid bone.

Usually, the mastoid bone lacks openings (fenestrae), which are present in T. talamancae.

Against their mastoid bones, a shrill buzzing.

From the internal receiver a thin wire cable is threaded through the mastoid bone and into the cochlea.

"Yes,' and she touched the mastoid bone.

A voice murmured inside Amalfi's head, coming from the tiny vibrator imbedded in the mastoid bone behind the mayor's right ear.

Sometimes there would be mechanical sounds, and others, the high-pitched whining, beeping sound that sent sharp pains through the mastoid bones.

For centuries more civilized peoples had been wearing specks of laminated plastic buried in the skin above the mastoid bone.