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Sagittal definition

săjĭ-tl
Of or relating to the suture uniting the two parietal bones of the skull.
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Of or relating to the sagittal plane.
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Of or like an arrow or arrowhead.
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Designating or of the suture between the two parietal bones along the length of the skull.
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Designating, of, or in the longitudinal plane of this suture, regarded as dividing the body into right and left halves.
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Of or in any plane parallel to this.
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Relating to the suture uniting the two parietal bones of the skull.
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Relating to the sagittal plane.
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(anatomy) In the direction from dorsal to ventral.
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Of or relating to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrow-like appendage.
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Origin of sagittal

  • New Latin sagittālis from Latin sagitta arrow

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From New Latin sagittālis, from sagitta (“arrow").

    From Wiktionary

Sagittal Sentence Examples

  • The skull generally lacks a sagittal crest; and the condyle of the lower jaw is transversely elongated.

  • The latter is, in comparison with mammals, represented by its middle portion only, the vermis; in a sagittal section it shows an extremely well developed arbor vitae, produced by the transverse, repeated folding of the whole organ.

  • The first is a ventral flexure in the antero-posterior or sagittal plane; the result of this is to approximate the two ends of the alimentary canal.

  • There is generally no sagittal crest to the skull; and the condyle of the lower jaw is transversely elongated.

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