sutura

(soo-too'rah) [L.] Suture, in any sense, especially a cranial or anatomical suture. the frontal with the two parietal bones. like projections on its interlocking margins, as the interparietal. lary suture, line of apposition of the orbital surface of the body of the maxilla with the lamina papyracea (os planum) of the ethmoid bone. metopic a, sometimes discernible for a short distance above the nasofrontal suture. i, Sutura dentata (the sagittal suture); 2, sutura frontoethmoidal suture, line of union between the cribriform plate of the ethmoid and the orbital plate and posterior margin of the nasal proce of the frontal bone. line of union between the upper margin of the lacrymal and the orbital plate of the frontal. articulation of the nasal proce of the maxilla with the frontal bone. sition of two contiguous bones having smooth or roughened edges, as the palatal portion of the intermaxillary. constant suture sometimes found running from the infraorbital foramen, on the anterior surface of the maxilla, to the infraorbital groove in the floor of the orbit, separating the orbital plate of the malar proce from the rest of the maxilla. line of union of the two superior maxillary bones. between the two nasal bones. line of union of the lacrymal with the inferior turbinated bone. ture, line of union, on the inner wall of the orbit, between the anterior and inferior margin of the lacrymal bone and the maxilla. union between the occipital and two parietal bones. the opposing margins fit by parallel ridges. of the squamous portion from the remainder of the occipital bone; it usually closes dur ng the first year of life, but sometimes persists, bounding one side of the interparietal bone. B. metop'ica, metopic suture, line of union between the two halves of the frontal bone, obliterated at the