a. Anat. [f. EPICRANI-UM + -AL.] Pertaining to the epicranium.
Epicranial suture: in insects (see quot. 1888).
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 774. Epicranial Lymphatics. They are distributed on all sides beneath the skin of the cranium.
1856. Todd & Bowman, Phys. Anat., II. 67. Three muscles … arising from the epicranial aponeurosis.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 140. Its dorsal surface or Epicranium is convex, and is marked by a Y-shaped epicranial suture.
