Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the suture uniting the two parietal bones of the skull.
- adjective Of or relating to the sagittal plane.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like or resembling an arrow or an arrow-head. Specifically
- In anatomy: Pertaining to the sagittal suture.
- Lying in or parallel to the plane of that suture: in this sense opposed to coronal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal.
- adjective In the mesial plane; mesial.
- adjective (Anat.) the suture between the two parietal bones in the top of the skull; -- called also
rabdoidal suture , andinterparietal suture .
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- adjective anatomy In the direction from
dorsal toventral .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective located in a plane that is parallel to the central plane of the sagittal suture
Etymologies
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Examples
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GUPTA: One goal of today's surgery, to sift through the complicated and web-like connections remaining between Carl and Clarence's veins and assign the largest one, called the sagittal sinus, to Clarence, the twins 'separation hinging on how well swelling and blood loss are controlled.
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The biggest concern is separating a vein called the sagittal sinus.
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The biggest concern is separating a vein called the sagittal sinus, the is a major blood supply drainage funnel between their two brains.
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Apart from being markedly smaller, females lacked a pronounced ridge, known as a sagittal crest, atop the cranial vault, a difference present in gorillas today.
Sexy Skull Find 2000
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This plane will pass approximately through the sagittal suture of the skull, and hence any plane parallel to it is termed a sagittal plane.
Introduction 1918
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The spine's normal curves occur at the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar regions in the so-called "sagittal" plane.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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A: The most common kind of synostosis is when the middle of the skull—the sagittal suture—is fused.
The Beauty of Love Laura Posada 2010
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Sagittal craniosynostosis occurs when there is fusion of the sagittal suture, which runs from a spot at the front of the head to the back of the skull, resulting in a long, narrow skull with or without bulging of both the back and front of the head.
The Beauty of Love Laura Posada 2010
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Morgan tore the superior sagittal sinus, which is a big vein that drains the brain.
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The stimulus is a magnetic moment generated orthogonal to a circulating (chemo -) electrical current, or 'drift,' along the superior chiasm ( 'rift' between the brains) in the sagittal plane, so that the magnetic vector is 'positive'-going in the direction and axial from our right ear to our left ear -- where' positive 'is not denoting moral judgment, only a consistency of nomenclature by the righthand-thumb rule, for convenience.
chained_bear commented on the word sagittal
usage note on lambdoid
March 19, 2008