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squamous

/ˈskweɪ.məs/

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What does squamous mean?

adjective

  1. Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly.
  2. Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal
  3. Of or pertaining to an epithelium with cells that are wider than their height (flat and scale-like).

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/ˈskweɪ.məs/

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/ˈskwɑː.məs/
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And there (they trust) there swimmeth One Who swam ere rivers were begun, Immense, of fishy form and mind, Squamous, omnipotent, and kind; And under that Almighty Fin, The littlest fish may enter in.
Rupert BrookeThe Collected Poems of Rupert BrookeProject Gutenberg ebook #262
In a cloth on a bench opposite were rolled up a portion of the malar bone, some fragments of the os frontis, one entire right parietal bone, detached from its fellow along the sagittel suture, and from the occipital along the lambdoidal suture, perhaps taking with it some of the occipital bone together with some of the squamous portion of the temporal bone.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747