bregma
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Origin of bregma
First recorded in 1570–80; from Greek brégma “front of the head”; akin to brain ( def. )
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A craniotomy was drilled with a diameter of approximately 4 mm with the centre 0.5 mm behind and 3 mm to the right of the bregma over the sensory barrel cortex region.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
Among the abnormalities were oxycephaly, platycephaly, stenocephaly, plagiocephaly, and heads with marked depression either at the bregma or the lambda.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
Their upper lines or boundaries touch each other over a part of the sagittal suture, a little back of the bregma; while the lower lines approach to within 6 mm. of the sagittal suture.
From A Bilateral Division of the Parietal Bone in a Chimpanzee; with a Special Reference to the Oblique Sutures in the Parietal by Hrdlička, Aleš
From the point where the anomalous sutures leave the coronal suture, to the bregma, the distance on the left is 44 mm., on the right 42 mm.
From A Bilateral Division of the Parietal Bone in a Chimpanzee; with a Special Reference to the Oblique Sutures in the Parietal by Hrdlička, Aleš
His head is asymmetrical, and is full at the occiput, slightly sunken at the bregma, and the forehead is low.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock
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