Worm \ˈvȯrm\ Ole (1588–1654), Danish physician. Worm was a professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen and personal physician to King Christian V as well. In 1634 he described the small bones that occasionally occur along the lambdoid suture of the human skull.
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Wormian bone
noun Wor·mi·an bone \ˈwȯr-mē-ən-\
Medical Definition of WORMIAN BONE
: a small irregular inconstant plate of bone interposed in a suture between large cranial bones—called also sutural bone
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