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.
The point at which the division has reached the sagittal suture is situated a little behind the middle of the latter.
From A Bilateral Division of the Parietal Bone in a Chimpanzee; with a Special Reference to the Oblique Sutures in the Parietal by Hrdlička, Aleš
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