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Definition of Asterion
1. Noun. The craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture.
Definition of Asterion
1. n. The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures.
Definition of Asterion
1. Noun. (anatomy) The point on the side of the skull corresponding to the posterior end of the parietomastoid suture. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Asterion
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Asterion
Literary usage of Asterion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"Cockayne says that the drawing of asterion in the best Anglo-Saxon MS. and in
two of the Latin MSS., is "beyond interpretation. ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1904)
"The posterior border of the mastoid process and the asterion are thus laid bare.
An opening in the skull is made, reaching upwards i cm. ..."
3. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"... 11, lambda; 12, maximum occipital point: 13, inion ; 14. asterion ; 15,
auricular point ; 16, ..."
4. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"5) we naturally infer that the asterion was one of the three chief rivers of ...
Probably Captain Steffen is right in identifying as the asterion the river ..."
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