Anat. and Zool. [SUPER- 3 c (b).] Situated in the upper part of the temples or temporal region. b. sb. A supertemporal bone.
1854. Owen, in Orr’s Circ. Sci., Org. Nat., I. 179. The bones that circumscribe the lower part of the orbit…. In fishes they are called ‘suborbitals.’… A similar series of bones sometimes overarches the temporal fossæ, and are called ‘supertemporals.’
1889. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., VIII. 155/2. (Descr. of Figure) Left supertemporal. Ibid., 158/2. The great length of the supertemporal fissure, and its dorsal subdivision.
