Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Olaus Worm, a Danish physician and scientist (1588-1654).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist.
- adjective small irregular plates of bone often interposed in the sutures between the large cranial bones.
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Examples
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The frequency of the wormian bones in the region of the median and in the lateral posterior frontal.
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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