Sagittal Definition

săjĭ-tl
adjective
Of or like an arrow or arrowhead.
Webster's New World
Designating or of the suture between the two parietal bones along the length of the skull.
Webster's New World
Of or in any plane parallel to this.
Webster's New World
Designating, of, or in the longitudinal plane of this suture, regarded as dividing the body into right and left halves.
Webster's New World

(anatomy) In the direction from dorsal to ventral.

Wiktionary

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.

  • It showed acceptable repeatability in the sagittal and frontal plane kinematics, but not in the transverse plane parameters (rotation angles ).

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