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Definition of: culmen
(kul′mən) noun
1. A summit or eminence.
2. Ornithol. The ridge or central longitudinal line of the upper mandible of bird's bill.
3. Anat. A small eminence on the upper surface of the cerebellum: also culmen mon·tic·u·li (mon·tik′yə·lī). [<L]
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