SAGITTAL SUTURE
\sˈad͡ʒɪtə͡l sˈuːt͡ʃə], \sˈadʒɪtəl sˈuːtʃə], \s_ˈa_dʒ_ɪ_t_əl s_ˈuː_tʃ_ə]\
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The suture which unites the two parietal bones, and which extends, from before to behind, on the median line, from the coronal suture to the lambdoidal. It is so called, from sagitta, 'an arrow,' because it seems to meet the coronal suture as an arrow meets the string of a bow.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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