Asterion: alternatives and connections

(anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull"

The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…

Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side,…

The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four c…

Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull.

A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point o…

A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae cont…

An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures.

Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated wit…

The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.

Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (/); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.

Same as Lambdoid.

Lambdoid.

A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel t…

A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forc…

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the mastoid process; mastoidal.

Same as Mastoid.