Craniometry. Pl. -ia, -ions. [mod.L. use of Gr. στεφάνιον, dim. of στέφανος crown.] The point where the coronal suture crosses the temporal ridge.
1878. Bartley, trans. Topinard’s Anthrop., II. ii. 248. Whose two measuring points are the stephanions at the union of the temporal ridge and the coronal suture.
1886. A. Macalister, in Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst., XVI. 22. A transverse green band of staining crosses the bone above the frontal eminences from stephanion to stephanion.
1902. Duckworth, Ibid., XXXII. 142. In the coronal suture on each side at and below the stephania.
