a. Anat. [f. STYLO- + MASTOID.] Common to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), I. 681/2. The stylo-mastoid hole, so called from its situation between the styloid and mastoid processes.
1840. E. Wilson, Anat. Vade M., 369. The stylo-mastoid vein.
1877. W. Turner, Introd. Hum. Anat., II. 467. A stylo-mastoid branch, which enters the stylo-mastoid foramen.
