NOUN
- the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium
How To Use bregma In A Sentence
- The height is usually measured from the basion to the bregma, and the proportion of height to length (height X 100)/length constitutes the vertical or height index. II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull
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- The front portion of it is termed ‘bregma’ or ‘sinciput’, developed after birth-for it is the last of all the bones in the body to acquire solidity, - the hinder part is termed the The History of Animals
- The motor area on both sides of the brain was sometimes implicated; thus in a child shot at Kimberley the bullet entered in the right frontal region, and emerged to the left of the line connecting bregma and inion Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
- The point of junction of the sagittal and coronal suture is named the bregma, that of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures, the lambda; they indicate respectively the positions of the anterior and posterior fontanelles in the fetal skull. II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull
- A large groove may occur extending from the bregma to the lesser wing of the sphenoid.
- The electrode was directed to the dorsal hippocampus, 1.7 mm posterior to the bregma.
- A large groove (sinus of Breschet) may occur on the intracranial face, parallel to the coronal suture and extending from the bregma to the lesser wing of the sphenoid.
- The anterior or bregmatic fontanelle (Fig. 197) is the largest, and is placed at the junction of the sagittal, coronal, and frontal sutures; it is lozenge-shaped, and measures about 4 cm. in its antero-posterior and 2.5 cm. in its transverse diameter. II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull
- The ‘bregma’, where the three bones meet, is in effect the highest part of the skull.