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dead-men-talking: Look at all those Wormian bones!  The back of his head is weirdly lumpy too.  (18th-19th century England.) Wormian/inca/interparietal bones are just extra bones that appear within cranial sutures, most commonly within the lamdoidal and coronal sutures of the parietals and occipital bones.  They got the name “inca bones” because apparently they turn up unusually frequently in Peru.

dead-men-talking:

Look at all those Wormian bones!  The back of his head is weirdly lumpy too.  (18th-19th century England.)

Wormian/inca/interparietal bones are just extra bones that appear within cranial sutures, most commonly within the lamdoidal and coronal sutures of the parietals and occipital bones.  They got the name “inca bones” because apparently they turn up unusually frequently in Peru.

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