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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
asterion is a noun meaning "the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture". It carries one recorded sense.
the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for asterion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.