Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the forehead.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the forehead: as, a metopic suture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Of or relating to the
forehead orfrontal bones ;frontal .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The metopic suture runs from the top of the head down the middle of the forehead, toward the nose.
The Beauty of Love Laura Posada 2010
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Beside him was another, smaller skeleton, preliminarily identified as a female of about seven years, for the metopic suture along the frontal bone of her skull had not yet fully disappeared.
The Killing Kind John Connolly 2002
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The external surface (Fig. 134) of this portion is convex and usually exhibits, in the lower part of the middle line, the remains of the frontal or metopic suture; in infancy this suture divides the bone into two, a condition which may persist throughout life.
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= -- The more frequent persistence of the metopic or frontal suture.
A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science James Leslie Allan Kayll 1908
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Louis was born on 25 October 2008 and diagnosed with a metopic synostosis at Great Ormond Street earlier this year.
This Is Guernsey 2009
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