Sinciput

//ˈsɪnsɪpʌt// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The front part of the head or skull (as contradistinct from occiput).

    "The cranial anomalies occurred either in the occiput or the sinciput, approximately twice as often in the occiput as in the sinciput. Such lesions have been considered to be inoperable when they involved the sinciput."

  2. 2
    the front part of the head or skull (including the forehead) wordnet

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bregma

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"The cranial anomalies occurred either in the occiput or the sinciput, approximately twice as often in the occiput as in the sinciput. Such lesions have been considered to be inoperable when they involved the sinciput."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sinciput (“half a head”; “smoked hog’s cheek or half-jowl”; (transferred senses): “brain”, “head”), whence also the French sinciput.

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