sagittal suture
Britishnoun
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On the posterior skull, the sagittal suture terminates by joining the lambdoid suture.
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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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Their upper lines or boundaries touch each other over a part of the sagittal suture, a little back of the bregma; while the lower lines approach to within 6 mm. of the sagittal suture.
From A Bilateral Division of the Parietal Bone in a Chimpanzee; with a Special Reference to the Oblique Sutures in the Parietal by Aleš Hrdlička
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
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