different between indented vs pterygopalatine

English

Verb

indented

1. simple past tense and past participle of indent

Adjective

indented (comparative more indented, superlative most indented)

1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
2. Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 3,^[3]

     Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself

     And with indented glides did slip away

     Into a bush;

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 8, lines 494-497,^[4]

     So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos’d

     In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve

     Address’d his way, not with indented wave,

     Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare,

3. (heraldry) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.

4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.

5. (zoology) Notched along the margin with a different color, like the feathers of some birds.

Synonyms

• (cut in the edge into points): erose, serrated; see also Thesaurus:notched

Anagrams

• detinned, intended

English

Alternative forms

• pterygopalatin (misspelling)
• pterygopalate

Etymology

Borrowed from French ptérygo-palatin, from New Latin pterygopal?t?nus, from pterygo?d?s (“winglike”) +? pal?t?nus (“relating to the palate”); equivalent to pterygo- +? palatine.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?.???.?(?)?pal.?.t??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??.??.o??pæl.??ta?n/
• Rhymes: -æl?ta?n

Adjective

pterygopalatine (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the indented area medial to the pterygomaxillary fissure leading into the sphenopalatine foramen.

Derived terms

• pterygopalatine fossa
• pterygopalatine ganglion

Translations

References

• “pterygopalatine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pte.ry.?o.pa.la??ti?.ne/, [pt??????pä??ä??t?i?n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pte.ri.?o.pa.la?ti.ne/, [pt???i??p?l??t?i?n?]

Adjective

pterygopal?t?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of pterygopal?t?nus