| Meaning | A landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken. |
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| Part of | skull | The bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates |
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| Narrower | acanthion | The craniometric point at the anterior extremity of the intermaxillary suture |
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| asterion | The craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture |
| auriculare, auricular point | The craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus |
| bregma | The craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium |
| condylion | The craniometric point at the tip of the mandibular condyle |
| coronion | The craniometric point at the tip of the coronoid process of the mandible |
| crotaphion | The tip of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone |
| dacryon | The craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone |
| entomion | The craniometric point at the tip of the angular part of the parietal bone that articulates with the temporal bone |
| glabella, mesophyron | A smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows |
| gnathion | The most inferior point of the mandible in the midline |
| gonion | The craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jaw |
| inion | The craniometric point that is the most prominent point / point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance) |
| jugale, jugal point | The craniometric point at the union of the frontal / frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone |
| lambda | The craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull |
| mastoidale | The craniometric point at the lowest point of the mastoid process |
| metopion | The craniometric point midway between the frontal eminences of the skull |
| nasion | The craniometric point at the bridge of the nose where the frontal and nasal bones of the skull meet / meet |
| obelion | The craniometric point on the sagittal suture near the lamboid suture |
| ophryon | The craniometric point in the midline of the forehead immediately above the orbits |
| orbitale, orbital point | The craniometric point at the lowest point on the lower edge of the orbit |
| pogonion | The craniometric point that is the most forward-projecting point / point on the anterior surface of the chin |
| prosthion, prostheon, alveolar point | craniometric point that is the most anterior point in the midline on the alveolar process of the maxilla |
| pterion | The craniometric point in the region of the sphenoid fontanelle |
| rhinion | The anterior tip at the end of the suture of the nasal bones |
| sphenion | The anterior tip of the parietal bone |
| stephanion | The craniometric point on the coronal suture above the acoustic meatus |
| symphysion | The most forward point of the alveolar process of the mandible |
| Broader | landmark | An anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken |
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