lambdoid suture

They occur most frequently in the course of the lambdoid suture, which is more "tortuous" than other sutures.

In infants this usually corresponds with the lambdoid suture in the mid pupillary line.

If the lambdoid suture closes too soon on one side, the skull will appear twisted and asymmetrical, a condition called "plagiocephaly."

A number of minor skeletal aberrations were also reported in the infant, including wormian bones at the lambdoid sutures.

The lesser, or posterior fontanel, is represented by a small triangular area at the intersection of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures.

Compensatory growth will occur sideways, due to the sagittal suture, and upwards, due to the lambdoid sutures.

Congenital causes include hydrocephalus, craniosynostosis (especially of the lambdoid suture), hyperostosis (ex.

The suture begins to close at age twenty-nine, starting at where it intersects at the lambdoid suture and working forward.

That point where the sagittal suture intersects the lambdoid suture is called the lambda, because of its resemblance to the Greek letter.

Malformation of the facial bones or of the eye sockets (lambdoid suture defects, sphenoid dysplasia)

'A single wound of entry situated in the right parietal bone just anterior to the lambdoid suture and close to the saggital suture.

The occipital border, deeply denticulated (finely toothed), articulates with the occipital bone, forming half of the lambdoid suture.

The derivation of this term may be demonstrated by observing how the sagittal suture is notched posteriorly, like an arrow, by the lambdoid suture.

The infant's skull consists of the metopic suture, coronal sutures, sagittal suture, and lambdoid sutures.

The lambdoid suture (or lambdoidal suture) is a dense, fibrous connective tissue joint on the posterior aspect of the skull that connects the parietal bones with the occipital bone.

It is crossed in front by the coronal suture and behind by the lambdoid suture, while the sagittal suture lies in the medial plane between the parietal bones.

If you take in the skull sutures, too, you can see here that the sagittal suture shows some signs of endocranial closure, but the occipital and the lambdoid sutures are still wide open.

Compensatory growth occurs forwards at the coronal suture and backwards at the lambdoid suture giving respectively a prominent forehead, called frontal bossing, and a prominent back portion of the head, called coning.

These bones are connected by the coronal suture between the frontal and parietal bones, the sagittal suture between the two parietal bones, and the lambdoid suture between the parietal and occipital bones.

The vertex is the area of the vault bounded anteriorly by the anterior fontanelle and the coronal suture, posteriorly by the posterior fontanelle and the lambdoid suture and laterally by 2 lines passing through the parietal eminences.