| 单词 | epipteric ossicle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasepipteric ossicle epipteric bone (also epipteric ossicle): a small Wormian bone sometimes found between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid. Also as n. = epipteric bone. ΚΠ 1879 W. H. Flower Catal. Osteol. i. p. xi The small supplementary ossifications at the upper end of the alisphenoid, which may be called epipterics. 1884 Jrnl. 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. 1902 D. J. Cunningham Text-bk. Anat. 127 They [sc. Wormian bones] occur commonly about the pterion, and in this situation are called epipteric bones (Flower). 1967 Gray'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. < as lemmas |
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