Eagle syndrome is an elongation of the styloid process causing irritation to nerves and muscles in the region resulting in a number of unusual symptoms.
The back-fire forced the crank backward into the chauffeur's palm and produced the characteristic styloid fracture.
The mastoid notch is a deep groove between the mastoid process and the styloid process.
The tissues in the throat rub on the styloid process during the act of swallowing with resulting pain along the glossopharyngeal nerve.
From the part which passes under the parotid gland a strong band extends upward to the temporal styloid process, forming the stylomandibular ligament.
At the distal end of the ulna is a styloid process.
The superficial components insert directly onto the ulna styloid.
There are several established instability criteria: dorsal tilt 20, comminuted fracture, abruption of the ulnar styloid process, intraarticular displacement 1mm, loss of radial height 2mm.
