WORMIAN BONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wormian bone mean? 

• WORMIAN BONE (noun)
  The noun WORMIAN BONE has 1 sense:

1. any of the tiny soft bones found in the sutures between cranial bones

  Familiarity information: WORMIAN BONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORMIAN BONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the tiny soft bones found in the sutures between cranial bones

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

sutural bone; Wormian bone

Hypernyms ("Wormian bone" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)