synciput

Noun

sinciput (plural sincipita or sinciputs)

1. The front part of the head or skull (as contradistinct from occiput).
   • The cranial anomalies occurred either in the occiput or the sinciput, approximately twice as often in the occiput as in the sinciput.
   • Such lesions have been considered to be inoperable when they involved the sinciput.1964, International Abstracts of Surgery, volume 119, page 629

   Synonyms:

   bregma

   Antonyms:

   occiput