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/sˈædʒətəl sˈutʃər/ Listen

adjective

Sagittal adj.

Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.

(Anat.)

(a)

Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of the skull.

(b)

In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal.

Sagittal suture (Anat.), the suture between the two parietal bones in the top of the skull; called also rabdoidal suture, and interparietal suture.

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Etymology of 'Sagittal suture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... extraordinary velocity: he would then lie for a while with every limb in action. The owner then yielded to all our wishes, and he was destroyed with prussic acid. No morbid appearance presented itself in the brain; but, on the inner plate of the right parietal bone, near the sagittal suture, were two projections, one-sixth of an inch in length, and armed with numerous minute spicula. There was no peculiar inflammation or vascularity of any ...

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