Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with hokes;as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique ortransverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.
Denoting an anatomical structure that is pierced by numerous small holes, in particular the plate of the ethmoid bone through which the olfactory nerves pass.
