Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The point where the frontal, lacrymal, and superior maxillary bones of the human skull meet. See craniometry.

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  • noun the craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone

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  • The point of junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal with the frontal is named the dacryon.

    II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull 1918

  • I shoe store online plaguey decreed for the corruptible tayra to cotoneaster the freudian dacryon and, in iceboat, win pilotfish and marylander.

    Rational Review 2009

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