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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Pref.

epi-

+ Gr. [GREEK] wing. So called because above the wing of the sphenoid.]

(Anat.)

Pertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid.

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Noun.

The epipteric bone.