sagittal suture
Britishnoun
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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
The sagittal suture joins the right and left parietal bones.
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
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.
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