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What is a sinciput?

What is a sinciput? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) The front part of the head or skull (as contradistinct from occiput).
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Your sinciput, dear friends, is the part of your head from the forehead to the tippy top.
In moderate deflexion, the occiput and sinciput meet the pelvic floor simultaneously, no internal rotation and the head persists in the oblique diameter.
When there is extension, the occiput is higher than the sinciput and the occiput is the cephalic prominence.
The cranial anomalies occurred either in the occiput or the sinciput, approximately twice as often in the occiput as in the sinciput.
On abdominal examination, more than half the fetal head is above the symphysis pubis and the occiput is palpable at a higher level than the sinciput.
A bump arose at once on my sinciput, and turned out to be as pretty an organ of order as one shall see on a summer's day.

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