Wormian

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wormian \Wor"mi*an\, a. (Anat.)
     Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish
     anatomist.
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     {Wormian bones}, small irregular plates of bone often


        interposed in the sutures between the large cranial bones.
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