sagittal suture
Britishnoun
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The sagittal suture joins the right and left parietal bones.
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The lambdoid suture extends downward and laterally to either side away from its junction with the sagittal suture.
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On the posterior skull, the sagittal suture terminates by joining the lambdoid suture.
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Sir Walter Scott had a skull in which premature closure of the sagittal suture produced the appearance of scaphocephaly, but compensation for this elsewhere produced a decidedly different type.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
"Villain!" exclaimed the Raja, "does not the soul or conscious life enter the body through the sagittal suture and lodge in the brain, thence to contemplate, through the same opening, the divine perfections?"
From Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance by Burton, Isabel, Lady
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