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n. - The craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium.

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  • For this reason the ‘bregma’ is the last of the bones to be formed; even after birth this bone is still soft in children.
  • 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...
  • The sagittal suture is in the line joining the lambda to the bregma.
  • His head is asymmetrical, and is full at the occiput, slightly sunken at the bregma, and the forehead is low.
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