Stephanion

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Stephanion
Side view of the skull. (Stephanion visible at center top, but not labeled. Coronal suture is at tip of arrow, and stephanion is slightly above it.)
Latin Stephanion
Gray's subject #46 183

The point where the upper temporal line cuts the coronal suture is named the stephanion.

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This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy.

Bones of head and neck: compound structures of skull (TA A02.1.00.002–052, GA 2.178–199)
Neurocranium
Facial skeleton
Both

M: BON/CAR

anat (c/f/k/f, u, t/p, l)/phys/devp/cell

noco/cong/tumr, sysi/epon, injr

proc, drug (M5)



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