Wormian
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GC: adj

S: MedAcademic – http://medicine.academic.ru/50425/wormian (last access: 19 June 2016); Elsevier – http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2211568413000028?via=sd (last access: 19 June 2016).

N: 1. Eponym from last name of Ole Worm.
Worm \ˈvȯrm\, Ole (Latin Olaus Wormius) (1588–1654), Danish physician. Worm was a professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen and personal physician to King Christian V as well. In 1634 he described the small bones that occasionally occur along the lambdoid suture of the human skull.

2. Relating to or described by Danish physician and anatomist Ole Worm (1588-1654).

S: 1. MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/Wormian%20bone (last access: 19 June 2016); FCB. 2. Dict.com – http://www.dictionary.com/browse/wormian (last access: 19 June 2016).

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CR: Wormian bone