stephanion
See also: stéphanion
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek στέφανος (stéphanos, “a crown”) + -ion (“craniometric feature”).
Noun
[edit]stephanion (plural stephanions)
- (anatomy) The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stephanion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)