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sagittal suture

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noun

  1. a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The sagittal suture joins the right and left parietal bones.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

The lambdoid suture extends downward and laterally to either side away from its junction with the sagittal suture.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

On the posterior skull, the sagittal suture terminates by joining the lambdoid suture.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

But the skull is relatively higher and broader, or more brachycephalic, the sagittal suture longer, and the superciliary ridges less projecting, than in the Neanderthal skull.

From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell

Arch across the skull of a rounded, flattened curve, with a depression up the centre of the forehead from the medium line between the eyes, to half way up the sagittal suture.

From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

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