Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the shape of the Greek letter lambda.
- adjective Anatomy Relating to the deeply serrated suture in the skull between the parietal bones and the occipital bone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 undercranium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (Λ).
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- adjective Shaped like the Greek letter
lambda :
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!"
Bones That Tell a Tale Brian Switek 2011
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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.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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One on each temporal bone and two side by side just above the lambdoid suture.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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One on each temporal bone and two side by side just above the lambdoid suture.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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One on each temporal bone and two side by side just above the lambdoid suture.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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_Entry_ (Mauser), through the lambdoid suture on the right side of the mid line.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Behind the wound of exit comminution of the parietal bone, extending back to the lambdoid suture, existed.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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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.
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
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