CRANIOMETRIC POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does craniometric point mean? 

• CRANIOMETRIC POINT (noun)
  The noun CRANIOMETRIC POINT has 1 sense:

1. a landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken

  Familiarity information: CRANIOMETRIC POINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRANIOMETRIC POINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("craniometric point" is a kind of...):

landmark (an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "craniometric point"):

asterion (the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture)

symphysion (the most forward point of the alveolar process of the mandible)

stephanion (the craniometric point on the coronal suture above the acoustic meatus)

sphenion (the anterior tip of the parietal bone)

rhinion (the anterior tip at the end of the suture of the nasal bones)

pterion (the craniometric point in the region of the sphenoid fontanelle)

alveolar point; prostheon; prosthion (craniometric point that is the most anterior point in the midline on the alveolar process of the maxilla)

pogonion (the craniometric point that is the most forward-projecting point on the anterior surface of the chin)

orbital point; orbitale (the craniometric point at the lowest point on the lower edge of the orbit)

ophryon (the craniometric point in the midline of the forehead immediately above the orbits)

obelion (the craniometric point on the sagittal suture near the lamboid suture)

nasion (the craniometric point at the bridge of the nose where the frontal and nasal bones of the skull meet)

metopion (the craniometric point midway between the frontal eminences of the skull)

mastoidale (the craniometric point at the lowest point of the mastoid process)

lambda (the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull)

jugal point; jugale (the craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone)

inion (the craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance))

gonion (the craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jaw)

gnathion (the most inferior point of the mandible in the midline)

glabella; mesophyron (a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges)

entomion (the craniometric point at the tip of the angular part of the parietal bone that articulates with the temporal bone)

dacryon (the craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone)

crotaphion (the tip of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone)

coronion (the craniometric point at the tip of the coronoid process of the mandible)

condylion (the craniometric point at the tip of the mandibular condyle)

bregma (the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium)

auricular point; auriculare (the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus)

acanthion (the craniometric point at the anterior extremity of the intermaxillary suture)

Holonyms ("craniometric point" is a part of...):

skull (the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates)