Medical Definition of Metopism
1. Persistence of the frontal suture in the adult. Origin: G. Metopon, forehead (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metopism
Literary usage of Metopism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Child: A Study in the Evolution of Man by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1902)
"As a result of numerous measurements, both of metopic and non-metopic skulls,
the author comes to the conclusion that the cause of metopism lies in the ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"... noticed by anthropologists that metopism, as the anomalous non-union of the
halves of this bone has been termed, is rare among microcephalic races, ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"It has been noticed by anthropologists that metopism, as the anomalous non-union
of the halves < >f this bone has been termed, is rare among microcephalic ..."
4. A Text-book of Embryology for Students of Medicine by John Clement Heisler (1902)
"Sometimes the union fails to take place, the condition of the persistent frontal
or metopic suture being known as metopism. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"metopism, when found, occurred in long skulls rather than broad skulls. There seemed
to be no correlation between skull- shape and the mandibular and ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"metopism, when found, occurred in long skulls rather than broad skulls. There seemed
to be no correlation between skull- shape and the mandibular and ..."
7. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1898)
"The sutures are very complicated, metopism is not infrequent and wormian bones
are very prevalent in the lambdoid suture. The face is short, broad above, ..."
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