English Dictionary

vaginal process

noun

(anatomy, now rare) A projecting lamina of bone on the inferior surface of the petrous portion of the temporal bone that is continuous with the tympanic plate and surrounds the base of the styloid process.

The vaginal process is a fold of peritoneum that extends into the inguinal canal.

意味（1）

(anatomy, now rare) A projecting lamina of bone on the inferior surface of the petrous portion of the temporal bone that is continuous with the tympanic plate and surrounds the base of the styloid process.

意味（2）

(embryology) An outpouching of peritoneum through the inguinal canal, from which the serous membrane (tunica vaginalis) covering the testicle is derived.

意味（3）

(anatomy) Either of a pair of projecting plates on the inferior surface of the sphenoid bone which articulate with the alae of the vomer.