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epactal, a. Anat.|ɪˈpæktəl, ɛˈpæktəl| [f. Gr. ἐπακτός (see prec.) + -al1.] ‘Imported; foreign’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). epactal bone: the Wormian bone at the superior angle of the occipital bone.
1878Bartley tr. Topinard's Anthrop. ii. i. 207 The exceptionally large ossa Wormiana..an epactal, for example. |