Lambdoid

Word LAMBDOID
Character 8
Hyphenation lamb doid
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Lambdoid"

What do we mean by lambdoid?

Having the shape of the Greek letter lambda. adjective

Relating to the deeply serrated suture in the skull between the parietal bones and the occipital bone. adjective

Having the shape of the Greek capital lambda (Λ): specifically applied in anatomy to the suture between the supraoccipital and the two parietal bones of the skull, which has this form in man. See cut under cranium.

Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (Λ). adjective

Shaped like the Greek letter lambda: adjective

The lambdoid suture.

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The word "lambdoid" in example sentences

In one section, Ms. Falk declares: "Dart had mistakenly identified the lambdoid suture of the skull that had been imprinted on Taung's endocast as the lunate sulcus!" ❋ Brian Switek (2011)

Nine glass and paper lambdoid forms stand in a cluster. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So: nine glass and paper lambdoid forms stand clustered, as ciphers and as semblances. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One on each temporal bone and two side by side just above the lambdoid suture. ❋ Whitley Strieber (1981)

_Entry_ (Mauser), through the lambdoid suture on the right side of the mid line. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)

Behind the wound of exit comminution of the parietal bone, extending back to the lambdoid suture, existed. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)

The point of junction of the sagittal and coronal suture is named the bregma, that of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures, the lambda; they indicate respectively the positions of the anterior and posterior fontanelles in the fetal skull. ❋ Unknown (1918)

G. Schwalbe has recently used the glabella-inion line (glabella, the central point between the arches of the eyebrows; inion, the protuberance of the occiput at the median line) for the comparison of the brainpans at the sagittal sutures, while H. Klaatsch has returned to the glabella - lambda line formerly proposed by Hamy (lambda, the point of union of the lambdoid and sagittal sutures). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Donne 13.85 describes an athletic laborer of twenty-five who received a wound from a rifle-ball penetrating the cranial parietes immediately in the posterior superior angle of the parietal bone, and a few lines from the lambdoid suture. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Donne describes an athletic laborer of twenty-five who received a wound from a rifle-ball penetrating the cranial parietes immediately in the posterior superior angle of the parietal bone, and a few lines from the lambdoid suture. ❋ Unknown (1896)

The sagittal suture on the median line of the upper surface usually presents a slight, bony elevation or ridge (see the engraving of the skull, Chapter III.), and the lambdoid suture on the back of the head is frequently rough. ❋ Unknown (1856)

A somewhat famous but unscientific practitioner of phrenology gave a good illustration of this by mistaking a rugged development of the lambdoid suture for an enormous organ of combativeness, and ascribing to the gentleman a terrific, pugnacious energy which was the very opposite of his true character. ❋ Unknown (1856)

When we fully understand this view of the base of the skull, let us look at it in profile, and observe the frontal bone connected by the coronal suture to the parietal and the parietal by the squamous or scaly suture to the temporal, and by the lambdoid suture to the occipital. ❋ Unknown (1856)

A superficial practical phrenologist (of great pretensions) at Cincinnati, in examining the head of a gentleman of mild character, found the lambdoid suture quite rough, and gave him a terrifically pugnacious character, not knowing enough to distinguish between osseous and cerebral development. ❋ Unknown (1856)

The Fgfr2+/P253R mice presented with synostosis in coronal suture and proximate fronts with disorganized cellularity in sagittal and lambdoid sutures. ❋ Yingli Wang (2010)

Beatson SA, Taniguchi H, Abe H, Bailey CM, et al. (2006) An extensive repertoire of type III secretion effectors in Escherichia coli O157 and the role of lambdoid phages in their dissemination. ❋ Zhemin Zhou Et Al. (2010)

The prophages include an F-pyocin-like prophage 01, a chimeric prophage 03, a lambdoid prophage 06, and decaying prophages 02, 04 and 05 with reduced size and / or complexity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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