dictionary help| petrous | medical dictionary |
1. Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone.
2. <anatomy> Same as Petrosal.
Origin: L. Petrosus, fr. Petra a stone.
(01 Mar 1998)
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