sagittal
Americanadjective
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Anatomy.
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of or relating to the suture between the parietal bones at the roof of the skull or to a venous canal within the skull and parallel to this suture.
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(in direction or location) from front to back in the median plane or in a plane parallel to the median.
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pertaining to or resembling an arrow or arrowhead.
adjective
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resembling an arrow; straight
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of or relating to the sagittal suture
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situated in a plane parallel to the sagittal suture
Other Word Forms
- sagittally adverb
Etymology
Origin of sagittal
From the New Latin word sagittālis, dating back to 1535–45. See Sagitta, -al 1
Example Sentences
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The results revealed that the percentage of the meniscus covering the tibia in the coronal and sagittal planes was higher in the symptomatic group than in the asymptomatic group.
From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2024
The percentage of meniscus was calculated in the coronal and sagittal sections, respectively.
From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2024
He went to a hospital emergency room just after midnight and was found to have high blood pressure and sagittal sinus venous thrombosis.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023
Again, if the body were supine or prone, to produce sagittal sections, the scanner would move from left to right or from right to left to divide the body lengthwise into left and right portions.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
With increasing age some sutures disappear, the rostrum increases in length and the ridges marking the limits of the temporal muscles come to fuse and eventually, in males, form a high sagittal crest.
From Subspeciation in Pocket Gophers of Kansas, [KU. Vol. 1 No. 11] by Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
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