• (a.) Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone. • (n.) The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under Temporal. • (a.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone.
Squa·mo'sal adjective (Anat.) (a) Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone. (b) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone. -- noun The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under Temporal . 
Type: Term Pronunciation: skwā-mō′săl Definitions: 1. Relating especially to the squamous part of the temporal bone.
squamosal 1. A thin plate-shaped bone of the vertebrate skull that forms the forward and upper part of the temporal bone in humans. 2. Relating to the thin, platelike part of the human temporal bone or to a corresponding part in other vertebrates.
Scale-like.