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Nares vs Pterygoid - What's the difference?

nares | pterygoid |

As nouns the difference between nares and pterygoid

is that nares is plural of lang=en while pterygoid is a bone which corresponds to the inner plate of the pterygoid process of the human skull, but which, in all vertebrates below mammals, is not connected with the posterior nares, but serves to connect the palatine bones with the point of suspension of the lower jaw.

As an adjective pterygoid is

resembling a wing.

nares

English

Noun

(head)

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    pterygoid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a wing
  • (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) A bone which corresponds to the inner plate of the pterygoid process of the human skull, but which, in all vertebrates below mammals, is not connected with the posterior nares, but serves to connect the palatine bones with the point of suspension of the lower jaw.