pterion
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editEtymology
editFrom French ptérion, from ptère (“wing of the sphenoid bone”) + -ion, from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
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editpterion (plural pterions or pteria)
- (anatomy) The point corresponding with the posterior end of the sphenoparietal suture; known as the weakest part of the skull.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 349:
- Then standing before a closet mirror, he put the automatic to his head, at the point of the pterion, and pressed the comfortably concaved trigger.
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editthe point corresponding with the posterior end of the sphenoparietal suture
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