a. and sb. Anat. [f. STYLO- + HY-OID + -AL.] Epithet of one of the bones of the hyoid arch, constituting in man the styloid process of the temporal bone. Chiefly as sb. = stylohyal bone.
1846. Owen, in Rep. Brit. Assoc., I. 236. A slender styliform bone, the ‘stylohyal.’
1880. Günther, Fishes, 64. A stylohyal process … may be distinguished.
1884. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 186. A bone called stylo-hyal, or ‘styloid process of the temporal.’
