alisphenoid

Updated: May 5, 2025

At the thought of the education she must have had, and the accomplishments she must possess, the soul of Hill became abject within him. She had spoken to him first over a difficulty about the alisphenoid of a rabbit's skull, and he had found that, in biology at least, he had no reason for self-abasement.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories