inion

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Time's Michael Scherer (used to work at CJR) and one Harold Johnson (sacoharry on Twitter). michaelscherer: Shepard Smith, for four years running my favorite cable tv host, is always marvel to behold sacoharry: Is this Shep's "Anderson Cooper in New Orleans" breakout moment? michaelscherer: I was always of the op [inion] that Shep did better th [a] n Coop in N [ew]

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  1. noun The most prominent projecting point of the occipital bone at the base of the skull.

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  • Time's Michael Scherer (used to work at CJR) and one Harold Johnson (sacoharry on Twitter). michaelscherer: Shepard Smith, for four years running my favorite cable tv host, is always marvel to behold sacoharry: Is this Shep's "Anderson Cooper in New Orleans" breakout moment? michaelscherer: I was always of the op [inion] that Shep did better th [a] n Coop in N [ew] —  CJR
  • In reality, they just make products more expensive for those of us that are non-inion. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • The intersection of the longitudinal nasion-inion (Ns-In) with the arch connecting the two pre-auricular points —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • f inion* • And as it was here;, fo i t is many tints in many of Gods Saints. —  The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
  • ISBN: 189239118X —  Asimov's Science Fiction
 

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  1. Greek īnion, occipital bone, from īs, īn-, sinew, fiber; see wei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also corruptly ingan, ingen, ingun; variant of onion: see onion.
  2. from Greek ἰνίον, the muscle between the occiput and the back, the back of the head, the nape of the neck. from ῖς (ἰν-), a sinew, fiber, literally strength, force, orig. *#567ις = Latin vis (vir-), force: see vim.
 

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