释义 |
‖ stephanion Craniometry.|stɪˈfeɪnɪən| Pl. -ia, -ions. [mod.L. use of Gr. στεϕάνιον, dim. of στέϕανος crown.] The point where the coronal suture crosses the temporal ridge.
1878Bartley tr. Topinard's Anthrop. ii. ii. 248 Whose two measuring points are the stephanions at the union of the temporal ridge and the coronal suture. 1886A. Macalister in Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst. XVI. 22 A transverse green band of staining crosses the bone above the frontal eminences from stephanion to stephanion. 1902Duckworth Ibid. XXXII. 142 In the coronal suture on each side at and below the stephania. |