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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the suture uniting the two parietal bones;
[syn: sagittal suture, interparietal suture, sutura sagittalis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sagittal \Sag"it*tal\, a. [L. sagitta an arrow: cf. F. sagittal.] 1. Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage. [1913 Webster] 2. (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. [1913 Webster] Sagittal suture (Anat.), the suture between the two parietal bones in the top of the skull; -- called also rabdoidal suture, and interparietal suture. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

interparietal suture n 1: the suture uniting the two parietal bones [syn: sagittal suture, interparietal suture, sutura sagittalis]