See Also: pterion(medicine)
Pasch(dictionary)
pasch-egg(dictionary)
pterion(dictionary)

pasch-egg (iou) and pterion (medicine)


pasch-egg (iou)



pasch-egg noun. Now Scot. & north. L16.
[from PASCH + EGG noun.]
A hard-boiled egg dyed in various colours, as an Easter gift; an Easter egg.

pterion (medicine)


pterion


A craniometric point in the region of the sphenoid fontanelle, at the junction of the greater wing of the sphenoid, the squamous temporal, the frontal, and the parietal bones; it intersects the course of the anterior division of the middle meningeal artery.

Origin: G. Pteron, wing