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epipteric, a. Anat.|ɛpɪpˈtɛrɪk|
[f. Gr. ἐπί upon + πτερόν wing + -ic.]
epipteric bone or epipteric ossicle, a small Wormian bone sometimes found between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid. Also as n. = epipteric bone.
1879W. H. Flower Catal. Osteology i. p. xi, The small supplementary ossifications at the upper end of the alisphenoid, which may be called epipterics. 1884Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 219 Professor Flower has drawn attention to the fact, that..where the frontal and squamosal bones articulate..the union is brought about by means of a Wormian bone..uniting with the frontal or squamosal, this intercalary ossicle he termed the epipteric bone. 1902Cunningham Text-bk. Anat. 127 They [sc. Wormian bones] occur commonly about the pterion, and in this situation are called epipteric bones (Flower). 1967Gray's Anat. (ed. 34) 375 One or more [sutural bones], the pterion ossicles or epiteric [sic] bones, sometimes exist between the sphenoidal angle of the parietal bone and the greater wing of the sphenoid bone. |