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sinciput
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sinciput /sin·ci·put/ (sin´sĭ-put) the upper and front part of the head.sincip´ital
sin·ci·put (sns-pt)
n. pl. sin·ci·puts or sin·cip·i·ta (sn-sp-t)
1. The upper half of the cranium, especially the anterior portion above and including the forehead.
2. The forehead.
sin·cipi·tal (-sp-tl) adj.
sinciput
[sin′siput]
Etymology: L, half a head
the anterior or upper part of the skull. See also bregma.
sinciput [sin´sĭ-put]
the upper and front part of the head. adj., adj sincip´ital.
sinciput
the upper and front part of the head.
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But part of me half-misses it, the chink in her small basinet, and tempts me almost to embrace the crackpot views of those poor nuts who have nostalgically trepanned themselves, or had themselves trepanned; by drilling through their sinciputs, they draw more blood into the brain --supposedly--and thus restore the magic buoyancy of yore, that infantile, Wordsworthian consciousness extinguished by the dosing of their crania.
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