Associations to the word «Cribriform»

Wiktionary

CRIBRIFORM, adjective. Perforated, as in the manner of a sieve.
CRIBRIFORM PLATE, noun. (anatomy) In the human skull, a sieve-like region of the ethmoid bone (which separates the nasal cavity from the brain).
CRIBRIFORM PLATES, noun. Plural of cribriform plate

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope