wormian bone

1. 1.

   any of the tiny soft bones found in the sutures between cranial bones

   Synonymssutural bone

   Broaderbone

Questions about wormian bone

What does wormian bone mean?

wormian bone means "any of the tiny soft bones found in the sutures between cranial bones".

What is another word for wormian bone?

Close synonyms include sutural bone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wormian bone a common word?

wormian bone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.