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.
Mastoid air cells are basically the hollow spaces present in a particular section of the temporal bone of the cranium. There is a deep groove on the medial side of the process as well as a shallow furrow called occipital groove, which houses the occipital artery.djacent to this rounded projection of the bone is the styloid process, a spine-like bony protrusion from the base of the temporal bone. Normally, it is fused with the squamous and mastoid portions, and partially separated from the tympanic antrum.