rhino-, rhin-, -rhine, -rrhine, -rhinous, -rrhinous

(Greek: nose)


otorhinology
The branch of medicine that deals with the nose and ears and their diseases.
oxyrhine, oxyrhinous
1. Sharp-nosed, sharp-snouted.
2. Possessing an acute sense of smell.
oxyrrhine, oxyrhine, oxyrrhinous, oxyrhrinous
Sharp-nosed, sharp-snouted; or having a sharp-pointed nose.
pachyrhinic
Having a thick or broad nose.
Pachyrhinosaurus
A “thick-nosed lizard” from Late Cretaceous Alberta, Canada; and Alaska. Named by U. S. fossil hunter Charles Mortram Sternberg (1885-1981) in 1950.
perirhinal
Around the nose or nasal cavity.
pharyngorhinoscopy
Inspection of the rhinopharynx and posterior nares with a rhinoscopic mirror.
phyllorhine, phyllorhinine
A reference to a bat that has a nose-leaf, or leaf-like appendage on the nose; leaf-nosed. Specifically, on of the Phyllorhinina.
platyrhine, platyrrhiny
1. Having the nose, or the nasal bones, flat or broad.
2. Characterized by a nose of large width in proportion to its length.
platyrrhine, platyrhine: flat-nose monkey
1. In zoology, a monkey belonging to the infraorder Platyrrhini of the order Primates, distinguished by a flattened nose with widely separated nostrils facing outwards and including most of the New World monkeys.
2. Of or pertaining to this group of monkeys which have the nose, or the nasal bones, flat or broad; a platyrrhine person or skull.
postrhilnal
Behind the nose or behind the olfactory lobe of the brain.
pterorhine
Having the nostrils feathered.
rhinaesthesia, rhinesthesia
The sense of smell (from Greek, rhis, rhin-, “nose”).
rhinal, rhinarial
Belonging to or connected with the nose; nasal.
rhinalgia
Pain in the nose; also, rhinodynia.

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