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‖ bregma Phys.|ˈbrɛgmə|
Pl. ˈbregmata.
[a. Gr. βρέγµα front of the head.]
The region of the skull where the frontal and the two parietal bones join; the sinciput; in infancy, before the sutures are closed, constituting the anterior fontanel. (Also formerly spoken of as two regions, the right and left bregmata.) Hence bregˈmatic a., pertaining to the bregma.
1578Banister Hist. Man i. 8 This Bregma is to be understode the vpper part of the head foreward, nigh to the Coronall Suture. 1754–64Smellie Midwif. III. 41 Through one of the Bregmata. 1787C. B. Trye in Med. Commun. II. 145 Over the whole right bregma. 1857Bullock Cazeaux' Midwif. 219 The great or anterior fontanelle is also called..the bregmatic fontanelle. 1878Bartley tr. Topinard's Anthrop. iv. 133 The bregmatic fontanelle..is always closed before two years and a half of age. |