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Meaning of bregma




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

bregma
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It's a Greek word that means forehead, top of the head. It is the name of the anatomical point of the skull where the coronal suture and sagittal suture meet perpendicularly. In other words it is the point of the skull where the two parietal bones meet the frontal bone. There two right angles are formed. It is the midpoint at the top of the frontal bone.

  



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