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Definition of Basion
1. n. The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.
Definition of Basion
1. Noun. (anatomy) The middle of the anterior margin of the foramen magnum of the skull. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Basion
1. a part of the skull [n -S]
Medical Definition of Basion
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Basion
Literary usage of Basion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Textbook of Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1905)
"basion (m¡4-¡mint of anterior border of for» magnum). Frontal sinus. 84. ...
The internal auditory meatus lies in a vertical plane, pass through the basion. ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... the line drawn through the basion and nasal point )-ttv, ... to the basion
and nasal points; the occipital angle of Daubenton, the angle which the line ..."
3. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"Angles made by lines from the basion to the principal points on the median ...
facial angle is the angle included between a line joining the basion to the ..."
4. Practitioner's medical dictionary by George Milbry Gould (1910)
"Relating to the basion and the nasion. ... basion (ba'-se-on) \basis\. A point
located at the middle of the anterior margin of the foramen magnum. ..."
5. Notes and Queries on Anthropology by John George Garson, Charles Hercules Read (1892)
"Measured from the basion (anterior edge of the foramen magnum) to the bregma (the
point 011 the ... Measured from the basion to the nasion in a direct line. ..."
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