Usually means: Lowest point of skull's base.
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  1. basion: Collins English Dictionary
  2. basion: Wordnik
  3. basion: Wiktionary
  4. basion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. basion: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. basion: Dictionary.com
  7. Basion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Basion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. basion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Basion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. basion: FreeDictionary.org
  12. basion: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. basion: Encyclopedia

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  1. basion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Basion: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. basion: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (anatomy) The middle of the anterior margin of the foramen magnum of the skull.

Similar:
opisthion, basiocciput, basioccipital, obelion, foramen magnum, sphenobasion, basisphenoid, foramen spinosum, os magnum, dorsum sellae, more...

Opposite:
acropolis, citadel, stronghold, fortress

Types:
frontal, parasagittal, transverse, oblique, more...

Adjectives:
nasion, sella, odontoid, prosthion, bregma, ora, gnathion

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Similar:
opisthion, basiocciput, basioccipital, obelion, foramen magnum, sphenobasion, basisphenoid, foramen spinosum, os magnum, dorsum sellae, more...

Opposite:
acropolis, citadel, stronghold, fortress

Types:
frontal, parasagittal, transverse, oblique, more...

Adjectives:
nasion, sella, odontoid, prosthion, bregma, ora, gnathion



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