Category:Squamose

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.