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Sinciput   Listen
noun
Sinciput  n.  
1.
(Anat.) The fore part of the head.
2.
(Zool.) The part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill and the vertex.





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"Sinciput" Quotes from Famous Books



... made the observation sooner," continued the magistrate, "I might have spared myself a good deal of trouble and a headache which extends from my occiput to my sinciput." ...
— Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • Jules Verne
... returned. According to her usual habit, Alena Ivanovna was bareheaded. Her scanty gray locks, greasy with oil, were gathered in one thin plait, which was fixed to the back of her neck by means of a piece of horn comb. The hatchet struck her just on the sinciput, and this was partly owing to her small stature. She scarcely uttered a faint cry and collapsed at once all in a heap on the floor; ...
— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various


Words linked to "Sinciput" :   human head, bone


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