euryon

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English

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Etymology

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From eury- +‎ -(i)on.

Noun

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euryon (plural euryons)

  1. (anatomy) Either of a pair of craniometric points, on the parietal bones, that mark the extremity of the skull.
    • 2018, Guilherme Carvalhal Ribas, Applied Cranial-Cerebral Anatomy:
      The superior aspect of the supramarginal gyrus lies underneath the euryon, which corresponds to the most prominent point of the parietal tuberosity or bossa []