bregma

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek βρέγμα (brégma, “top of the head”). === Noun === bregma (plural bregmata or bregmas) (anatomy) The anatomical structure on the skull where the coronal suture and sagittal suture meet. Synonym: sinciput ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary, 27th edition. Retrieved January 30, 2006. === Anagrams === Gamber, gamber == French == === Noun === bregma m (plural bregmas) bregma == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbrɛɡ.ma] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbrɛɡ.ma] === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Ancient Greek βρέγμα (brégma). ==== Noun ==== bregma n (genitive bregmatis); third declension (New Latin) bregma ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). === Etymology 2 === Pliny calls the word Indian. ==== Noun ==== bregma n (indeclinable) a defect of pepper === Further reading === “bregma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “bregma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.