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asterion

[ ăs-tîr′ē-ŏn′, -ən ]

n.

The junction of the lambdoid, occipitomastoid, and parietomastoid sutures on the skull.

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Examples from the Web for asterion

Pausanias represents Asterion, whose tomb is said to have been discovered in Lydia, as a son of Anac, and of an enormous size.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.|Jacob Bryant
Then in this condition he made her live with Asterion the king of the Cretans.
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica|Homer and Hesiod