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Wormian bone

Other forms: Wormian bones

Definitions of Wormian bone
  1. noun
    any of the tiny soft bones found in the sutures between cranial bones
    synonyms: sutural bone
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    type of:
    bone, os
    rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
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