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
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Examples
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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!"
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So: nine glass and paper lambdoid forms stand clustered, as ciphers and as semblances.
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Nine glass and paper lambdoid forms stand in a cluster.
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One on each temporal bone and two side by side just above the lambdoid suture.
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_Entry_ (Mauser), through the lambdoid suture on the right side of the mid line.
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Behind the wound of exit comminution of the parietal bone, extending back to the lambdoid suture, existed.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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