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Stephanion
Side view of the skull. (Stephanion visible at center top, but not labeled. Coronal suture is at tip of arrow, and stephanion is slightly above it.)
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Latin	stephanion
Anatomical terminology[edit on Wikidata]

The point where the upper temporal line cuts the coronal suture is named the stephanion.

The stephanion is found anterior to the euryon (the most lateral point of the skull), and hence, the supramarginal gyrus. The stephanion is located on the same coronal plane as Broca's area (Brodmann's area 44-45).

References

Vigo, Vera; Cornejo, Kimberly; Nunez, Lizbeth; Abla, Adib; Rodriguez Rubio, Roberto (2020-06-15). "Immersive Surgical Anatomy of the Craniometric Points". Cureus. 12 (6): e8643. doi:10.7759/cureus.8643. ISSN 2168-8184. PMC 7366040. PMID 32685312. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 183 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

v t e Compound structures of skull
Neurocranium	Calvaria Diploë Asterion Pterion Stephanion Inion Bregma Lambda Fossae anterior middle posterior cranial cavity Base of skull Fontanelle anterior posterior sphenoidal mastoid
Facial skeleton	Nasion Gonion
Both	dacryon zygomatic arch temporal fossa infratemporal fossa pterygomaxillary fissure pterygopalatine fossa

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