opisthocranion

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opisthocranion [ə‚pis·thə′krā·nē‚än]

(anthropology)

The point, wherever it may lie in the sagittal plane on the occipital bone, which marks the posterior extremity of the longest diameter of the skull, measured from the glabella.

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