Crossword-Solution: METOPIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Metopic | a. | Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal; as, the metopic suture. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| METOPIC | anagram | TIMECOP |
We have 2 clues for the answer “METOPIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Came across old shot of just the top of a face | 1 answer |
| Of the forehead | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Sentences with METOPIC (5)
The following typical peculiarities have been noticed by different criminologists:-- =The Cranium.=--The more frequent persistence of the metopic or frontal suture.
Now, if from the _metopic_ point of the forehead, we drop an imaginary perpendicular to the line of orientation, it ought to form, in projection, a tangent to the point of attachment of the nostrils.
But let us trace the nasal line: it meets the vertical line before reaching the metopic point; in order to meet it at this point, the nose would have had to be narrower from front to back; in that case the profile of Pauline Borghese would have been a perfect Roman profile; but the imperial stigma of the Napoleonic house deprived the beautiful princess of the privilege of perfect classic beauty.
Among the other measurements which an taken on the cranium, the following may be cited: The _antero-posterior metopic diameter_: from the metopic to the occipital point.
Camper's angle is that included between the auricular foramen, the point of insertion of the upper incisors and the metopic point.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1998).