TIE See also:

• SKULL

SKULL FROM ABOVE (norma verticalis)  . When looked at from above the frontal See also:

• BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
• BONE, HENRY (1755-1834)

bone is seen forming the anterior See also:

• PART

part of the vertex and articulating with the two parietals posteriorly by a nearly transverse serrated suture (coronal suture) . See also:

• RUNNING

Running back from the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of this is the median sagittal suture extending as far as the lambda on the norma occipitalis . The point where the sagittal and coronal sutures join is the bregma, the site of the See also:

• LOZENGE (from the Fr. losenge, or losange; the word also appears in Span. losanje, and Ital. losanga; perhaps derived from a word meaning a stone slab laid on a grave, which appears in forms such as Provencal lousa, Span. losa, the ultimate origin of whic

lozenge-shaped anterior fontanelle in the See also:

• INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant's See also:

• SKULL

skull, but this closes during the second See also:

• YEAR

year of See also:

• LIFE

life . Small ossicles called Wormian bones are often found in the See also:

• CRANIAL

cranial sutures, and one of these (the interfrontal or os See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-epilepticum) is sometimes found at the bregma . About two-thirds of the way back the sagittal suture becomes less serrated and on each See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of it the, small parietal foramen may be seen . This only transmits a small emissary vein (see See also:

• VEINS

VEINS) in the adult, but, as will be seen later, is of considerable morphological See also:

• INTEREST

interest . As middle life is reached the cranial sutures tend to become obliterated and the bones can no longer be separated; this See also:

• FUSION

fusion begins at the places where the sutures are least deeply serrated, and as a See also:

• RULE

rule the sagittal suture disappears between the two parietal foramina between See also:

• THIRTY

thirty and See also:

• FORTY

forty years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age .