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Words related to sagittal

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  • bregma

    the point on the top of the skull where the coronal and sagittal sutures meet: in infants this corresponds to the anterior fontanelle

  • distal

    situated away from the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone; terminal. Compare proximal.

  • mesial

    medial.

  • midsagittal plane

    a plane passing through the nasion when the skull is oriented in the Frankfurt horizontal.

  • parietal bone

    either of a pair of membrane bones forming, by their union at the sagittal suture, part of the sides and top of the skull.

  • scaphocephaly

    premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
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