Bregma
the junction point of the sagittal and coronal sutures of the skull.
Historical Examples
Pedagogical Anthropology Maria Montessori
Notes on the Fenland T. McKenny Huges
The Matron’s Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed Frederick Hollick
Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnus William MacGillivray
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) Havelock Ellis
noun (pl) -mata (-mətə)
the point on the top of the skull where the coronal and sagittal sutures meet: in infants this corresponds to the anterior fontanelle
breg·mat’ic (-māt’ĭk) adj.
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