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noun
MedicineFlattening of the base of the skull; especially a developmental or acquired abnormality in which there is invagination of the area of the skull around the foramen magnum (basilar impression).
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. From platybas- + -ia; compare basi-.
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