sphenoid
- n butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull
- These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses.
- As a "ham" in a small Western Union office in the 1890s here in the sphenoid tip of the Old Dominion, I coincidentally graduated from high school in 1899 and started looping .
- He has even been known to drain his own sphenoid cavity, an intricate and highly painful process.