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Definition of Metopic
1. a. Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal; as, the metopic suture.
Definition of Metopic
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Of or relating to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metopic
1. pertaining to the forehead [adj]
Medical Definition of Metopic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Metopic
Literary usage of Metopic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE metopic SUTURE. A WELL studied memoir on this subject is
... They clearly indicate that the presence and persistence of the metopic ..."
2. Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India: Part I. Osteology, Or The Bones of by August Friedrich Rudolf Hoernle (1907)
"metopic suture. b, b. Superciliary ridges. ridges, and may even have noticed the
exceptional occurrence of a 'metopic skull". The division of the occipital ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"This percentage of open metopic suture varies widely in the different groups, as,
... The morphology of metopic crania has been exhaustively treated by Dr. ..."
4. Textbook of Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1905)
"3)—point to the nior frequent occurrence of this metopic suture in the higher
than in the lower races of man ; am Calmette asserts its greater frequence in ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Of or pertaining to the forehead: as, a metopic suture—metopic point, ...
metopic suture, the median suture uniting the two halves of the frontal bone, ..."
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