Styloid process (Anat.), a long and slender process from the lower side
of the temporal bone of man, corresponding to the tympanohyal and
stylohyal of other animals.
Sty`lo*mas"toid (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the styloid and
mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
Sty`lo*max"il*la*ry (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the styloid
process and the maxilla.
Sty*lom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; column + -meter.] An instrument for
measuring columns.
||Sty*lom"ma*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a pillar + &?;, &?;, the
||eye.] Same as Stylommatophora.
||Sty*lom`ma*toph"o*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; column + &?; eye +
||&?; to bear.] (Zoöl.) A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are
||situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land
||snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.
Sty*lom`ma*toph"o*rous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to
Stylommatophora.
||Sty`lo*po"di*um (?), n.; pl. Stylopodia (#). [NL. See Style, and
||Podium.] (Bot.) An expansion at the base of the style, as in
||umbelliferous plants.
||Sty"lops (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a pillar + &?;, &?;, the eye.]
||(Zoöl.) A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state,
||on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera,
||formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to
||the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.
||Sty"lus (?), n. [L. stylus, or better stilus.] An instrument for
||writing. See Style, n., 1.
Styph"nate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of styphnic acid.
Styph"nic (?), a. [Gr. (spurious) sty`fein to contract.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid,
(NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin.
Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a
strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.
Styp"tic (?), a. [L. stypticus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to contract.]
Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of
restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
[Written also stiptic.]
Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis)
closely related to the wild senna.
Styp"tic, n. (Med.) A styptic medicine.
Styp"tic*al (?), a. Styptic; astringent.
Styp*tic"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. stypticité.] The quality or state of
being styptic; astringency.
Styr"a*cin (?), n. [See Styrax.] (Chem.) A white crystalline tasteless
substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of
cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.
Sty"rax (?), n. [L. styrax, storax, Gr. &?;. See Storax.] 1. (Bot.) A
genus of shrubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in
resinous and aromatic substances. Styrax officinalis yields storax, and
S. Benzoin yields benzoin.