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Definition of Quadrate bone

Quadrate bone
Quadrate Quad"rate, a. [L. quadratus squared, p. p. of quadrare to make four-cornered, to make square, to square, to fit, suit, from quadrus square, quattuor four. See Quadrant, and cf. Quadrat, Quarry an arrow, Square.] 1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate. --Foxe. 2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. `` Quadrate and cubical numbers.' --Sir T. Browne. 3. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. [Archaic] `` A quadrate, solid, wise man.' --Howell. 4. Squared; suited; correspondent. [Archaic] `` A generical description quadrate to both.' --Harvey. Quadrate bone (Anat.), a bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates below the mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the malleus or incus.

Meaning of Quadrate bone from wikipedia

- The quadrate bone is a skull bone in most tetrapods, including amphibians, sauropsids (reptiles, birds), and early synapsids. In most tetrapods, the quadrate...
- prearticular bones have fused to form the compound bone. The mandible is suspended from the quadrate bone and articulates at this compound bone. In most tetrapods...
- reptiles, the inner face of the quadratojugal also connects to the quadrate bone which forms the cranium's contribution to the jaw joint. Early in their...
- quadrate and articular bones of the skull articulate to form the jaw joint. The squamosal bone lies anterior to the quadrate bone. In non-mammalian synapsids...
- up Quadrate or quadrate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Quadrate may refer to: Quadrate bone Quadrate (heraldry) Quadrate lobe of liver Quadrate tubercle...
- jugal bone is only weakly developed and has a smooth surface. The convex quadratojugal bone overlaps the rear of the shaft of the quadrate bone. The quadrate...
- The femur (/ˈfiːmər/; pl.: femurs or femora /ˈfɛmərə/), or thigh bone is the only bone in the thigh — the region of the lower limb between the hip and...
- modern mammals. Over the course of mammalian evolution, one bone from the upper jaw (the quadrate) and one from the lower jaw (the articular) lost their function...
- others boids. The quadrate bone is oriented at a low angle and the articulation of both the palatine to pterygoid and pterygoid to quadrate are heavily reduced...
- the quadrate, as in the Amblycephalidae; the supratemporal may be much reduced, and wedged in between the adjacent bones of the cranium; the quadrate may...