Cribriform. World English Historical Dictionary

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a. [a. mod.L. crībriform-is sieve-shaped; see prec. and -FORM.] Having the form or appearance of a sieve; perforated with numerous small holes; esp. in cribriform plate, the bony plate forming the front part of the ethmoid bone, through which the olfactory nerves pass to the nasal cavity.

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1741.  Monro, Anat. Bones (ed. 3), 80. The cribriform part of the Os Ethmoides.

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1847.  Youatt, Horse, vi. 118. The cribriform or sieve-shaped plate … perforated by a multitude of little holes, through which the nerve connected with smelling passes and spreads over the nose.

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1880.  Gray, Struct. Bot., iii. § 3. 77. Cribriform or Sieve-cells, a sort of ducts the walls of which have open slits, through which they communicate with each other.

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