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Pteron vs Pterion - What's the difference?

pteron | pterion |

As nouns the difference between pteron and pterion

is that pteron is (architecture) a peristyle raised on a podium, differing from an ordinary peristyle raised only on a stylobate while pterion is (anatomy) the point corresponding with the posterior end of the sphenoparietal suture; known as the weakest part of the skull.

pteron

English

Noun

(wikipedia pteron)
  • (architecture) A peristyle raised on a podium, differing from an ordinary peristyle raised only on a stylobate.

    • pterion

    English

    (wikipedia pterion)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The point corresponding with the posterior end of the sphenoparietal suture; known as the weakest part of the skull.
  • *1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 349:
  • *:Then standing before a closet mirror, he put the automatic to his head, at the point of the pterion , and pressed the comfortably concaved trigger.

    • Derived terms

    * epipteric * pterionic

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