opisthion

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek.

Noun

opisthion (plural opisthia)

1. (anatomy) The middle of the posterior, or dorsal, margin of the great foramen of the skull.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “opisthion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)