epactaladj.
/ɪˈpaktəl//ɛˈpaktəl/ Anatomy.
‘Imported; foreign’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). epactal bone n. the Wormian bone at the superior angle of the occipital bone.
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1878 R. T. H. Bartley tr. P. Topinard Anthropol. ii. i. 207 The exceptionally large ossa Wormiana..an epactal, for example.
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