| 释义 |
wormian, a. Anat.|ˈwɔːmɪən|
[ad. mod.L. (ossa) Wormiān-a, f. the name of the Danish physician Olaus Worm (1588–1654).]
The designation of small bones of irregular shape (otherwise styled ossa triquetra), frequently found in the sutures of the skull.
1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 59 A wormian bone, which varies in size, and is frequently of an oval form. 1849–52Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 960/1 An interval is formed, which is afterwards filled up with Wormian ossicles. 1866Huxley Prehist. Rem. Caithn. 88 There is a large Wormian bone in the right crus of the lambdoid suture. 1884J. G. Garson in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. XIII. 391 The wormian bones are small in most instances. |