sinciput
IPA: sˈɪnsʌpʊt
noun
- (chiefly anatomy) The front part of the head or skull (as contradistinct from occiput).
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Examples of "sinciput" in Sentences
- The brain lies underneath the sinciput; the occiput is hollow.
- In the face the part below the sinciput and between the eyes is termed the forehead.
- After the eighth day a cranial abscess spontaneously opened, from the sinciput to the occiput, and a large quantity of "corruption" was evacuated.
- After the eighth day a cranial abscess spontaneously opened, from the sinciput to the occiput, and a large quantity of ` ` corruption '' was evacuated.
- Wet your forefinger with your spittle; stick a broken gold-leaf on the sinciput; clip off a beggar's beard to make it tresses, kiss it; fall down before it; worship it.
- “And had I made the observation sooner,” continued the magistrate, “I might have spared myself a good deal of trouble and a headache which extends from my occiput to my sinciput.”
- "And had I made the observation sooner," continued the magistrate, "I might have spared myself a good deal of trouble and a headache which extends from my occiput to my sinciput."
- The front portion of it is termed ‘bregma’ or ‘sinciput’, developed after birth-for it is the last of all the bones in the body to acquire solidity, - the hinder part is termed the
- The skull-caps of plaited and blackened palm leaf, though common in the interior, are here rare; an imitation is produced by tressing the hair longitudinally from occiput to sinciput, making the head
- The skull-caps of plaited and blackened palm leaf, though common in the interior, are here rare; an imitation is produced by tressing the hair longitudinally from occiput to sinciput, making the head a system of ridges, divided by scalp-lines, and a fan-shaped tuft of scarlet-stained palm frond surmounts the poll.
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