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Definition of Metopion
1. Noun. The craniometric point midway between the frontal eminences of the skull.
Medical Definition of Metopion
1. A craniometric point midway between the frontal eminences. Synonym: metopic point. Origin: G. Metopon, forehead (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metopion
Literary usage of Metopion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Laboratory Manual of Anthropometry by Harris Hawthorne Wilder (1920)
"This is the angle of inclination of the nasion-metopion line to the FH, ...
The metopion, the point in the median line crossed by the line connecting the ..."
2. New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment: Physico-clinical Medicine, the by Albert Abrams (1922)
"Midway between the frontal eminences (metopion), a negative duling energy ...
The headache (in the metopion) from constipation and digestive disorders may ..."
3. Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori (1913)
"104; in it the line of the facial profile, extending from the metopion to the
septo-labial point also passes through the point corresponding to the ..."
4. Disquisitions in the History of Medicine: Part First, Exhibiting a View of by Richard Millar (1811)
"... are recited by Dioscorides, and Galen; as the Unguent metopion, so named,
because the tree which yielded its principal ingredient, Galbanum, ..."
5. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"The frontal bone retreats slightly to the metopion, the hinder limb of its curve
is long. From the bregma to the occipital protubérance the curve is ..."
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