Usually means: Point on skull's posterior midline.
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  6. opisthion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  1. opisthion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Opisthion: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
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  5. opisthion: Medical dictionary

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

Similar:
opisthocranion, opisthenar, opisthotic, opisthothorax, supraoccipital, occipital, basion, internal occipital protuberance, occiput, omosternum, more...

Opposite:
prosthion, anterior

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Similar:
opisthocranion, opisthenar, opisthotic, opisthothorax, supraoccipital, occipital, basion, internal occipital protuberance, occiput, omosternum, more...

Opposite:
prosthion, anterior



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