Learner's definition of QUARRY. 1. : to dig or take (stone or other materials) from a quarry. â often used as (be) quarried. [+ object]. Limestone is quarried in this area. The stone used for these buildings was quarried from a nearby site.
The mastoid process is a conical prominence projecting from the undersurface of the mastoid portion of the temporal bone.It is located just behind the external acoustic meatus, and lateral to the styloid process.he mastoid process is a conical prominence projecting from the undersurface of the mastoid portion of the temporal bone.
At the upper and front part of the process they are large and irregular and contain air (a form of skeletal pneumaticity), but toward the lower part they diminish in size, while those at the apex of the process are frequently quite small and contain marrow; occasionally they are entirely absent, and the mastoid is then solid throughout.