sagittal suture
Britishnoun
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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 Lyell, Charles, Sir
The hair was clipped from the head, and an incision carried immediately from between the eye-brows to the back part of the skull, in the direction of the sagittal suture.
From The Dog by Youatt, William
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