sagittal

IPA: sˈædʒʌtʌɫ

adjective

  • (anatomy) Relating to or denoting the suture on top of the skull which runs between the parietal bones in a front to back direction.
  • (anatomy) Of or in a plane parallel to the median plane, especially that dividing the body into left and right halves.
  • Of or relating to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.
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Examples of "sagittal" in Sentences

  • The biggest concern is separating a vein called the sagittal sinus.
  • Morgan tore the superior sagittal sinus, which is a big vein that drains the brain.
  • A: The most common kind of synostosis is when the middle of the skull—the sagittal suture—is fused.
  • The spine's normal curves occur at the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar regions in the so-called "sagittal" plane.
  • The biggest concern is separating a vein called the sagittal sinus, the is a major blood supply drainage funnel between their two brains.
  • This plane will pass approximately through the sagittal suture of the skull, and hence any plane parallel to it is termed a sagittal plane.
  • Apart from being markedly smaller, females lacked a pronounced ridge, known as a sagittal crest, atop the cranial vault, a difference present in gorillas today.
  • Sagittal craniosynostosis occurs when there is fusion of the sagittal suture, which runs from a spot at the front of the head to the back of the skull, resulting in a long, narrow skull with or without bulging of both the back and front of the head.
  • GUPTA: One goal of today's surgery, to sift through the complicated and web-like connections remaining between Carl and Clarence's veins and assign the largest one, called the sagittal sinus, to Clarence, the twins 'separation hinging on how well swelling and blood loss are controlled.
  • The stimulus is a magnetic moment generated orthogonal to a circulating (chemo -) electrical current, or 'drift,' along the superior chiasm ( 'rift' between the brains) in the sagittal plane, so that the magnetic vector is 'positive'-going in the direction and axial from our right ear to our left ear -- where' positive 'is not denoting moral judgment, only a consistency of nomenclature by the righthand-thumb rule, for convenience.

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