presence of small extra bone segments, usually of irregular shape and variable size, arising in fontanelles and/or adjacent to or along the cranial sutures, and formed from additional and separate centers of ossification of the cranium; in humans, Wormian bones are most frequently located in the lambdoid or coronal suture, and have been seen in the fontanelles, particularly the posterior fontanelle
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Exact Synonyms:
extra bones within cranial sutures
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intra sutural bones
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intrasutural bones
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islands of bone within cranial sutures or fontanelles