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metopism
metopism (ˈmɛtəˌpɪzəm) n (Medicine) a congenital disfigurement of the forehead in which the frontal suture, which normally undergoes closure during childhood, persistsMetopism
Metopism in anthropology, the persistence in an adult human of the embryonic suture that divides the frontal squama into right and left halves. (Usually the suture becomes overgrown at the end of the second year of life.) WORKSUryson, M. I. “Metopizm u cheloveka.” Sovetskaia antropologiia, 1959, vol. 3, no. 1.metopism
met·o·pism (met'ō-pizm), Persistence of the frontal metopic suture [TA] in the adult. [G. metōpon, forehead] metopism (mĕt′ō-pĭzm) Persistence of the metopic suture in an adult. |