NOUN
- the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture
How To Use asterion In A Sentence
- Hence the word cometh to have its second acceptation, even that which is rendered by the apostle hilastērion, “placamen,” or “placamentum,” — that whereby God is appeased. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
- The point of meeting of the parietomastoid, occipitomastoid, and lambdoidal sutures is known as the asterion. II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull
- The cover or lid of the ark is termed in the LXX. hilasterion, that which covered or shut out the claims and demands of the law against the sins of God's people, whereby he became "propitious" to them. Easton's Bible Dictionary
- The triangular area formed by asterion, mastoid tip and anterior angle of parieto mastoid suture was the surface projection of the descending portion of the sigmoid sinus.
