Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Having the shape of the Greek letter lambda.
- adj. Anatomy Relating to the deeply serrated suture in the skull between the parietal bones and the occipital bone.
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- adj. Shaped like the Greek letter lambda:
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (Λ).
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Etymologies
from the Greek letter λάμδα (lambda) (Wiktionary)
chained_bear commented on the word lambdoid
"The scars could be made out, but there was nothing of that yielding either side of the sagittal suture and a little above the lambdoid that had worried Dr Maturin."
--P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 202
March 19, 2008
kad commented on the word lambdoid
ooh, i like this one. there's also deltoid, but I can't think of other shapes defined by Greek letters. i sense a new list coming on...
December 5, 2006
phillyidol commented on the word lambdoid
December 5, 2006