Sagittal

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  • adjective. Of or relating to the suture uniting the two parietal bones of the skull.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the sagittal plane.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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. undefined
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal.
  • adjective. In the mesial plane; mesial.
  • adjective. the suture between the two parietal bones in the top of the skull; -- called also rabdoidal suture, and interparietal suture.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. In the direction from dorsal to ventral.
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  • adjective. located in a plane that is parallel to the central plane of the sagittal suture
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    mesial  
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    mesial  rabdoidal