loading...| Preferred Name | frontal suture | |
| Synonyms |
sutura frontalis metopic suture median frontal suture frontal suture of skull sutura metopica |
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| Definitions |
A suture that connects the two frontal bones of the skull. |
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| ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002490 |
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| database_cross_reference |
SCTID:136854008 Wikipedia:Frontal_suture EMAPA:19226 EMAPA:35358 FMA:52989 MA:0002796 |
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| depicted by |
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Frontal_suture.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Gray134.png |
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| has_exact_synonym |
median frontal suture frontal suture of skull sutura frontalis sutura metopica |
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| has_related_synonym |
sutura frontalis metopic suture |
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uberon |
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UBERON:0002490 |
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| label |
frontal suture |
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| notation |
UBERON:0002490 |
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| prefLabel |
frontal suture |
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| textual definition |
A suture that connects the two frontal bones of the skull. |
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| UBPROP_0000008 |
in humans, the frontal suture is a dense connective tissue structure that divides the two halves of the frontal bone of the skull in infants and children. It usually disappears by the age of six, with the two halves of the frontal bone being fused together. If it does not disappear it may be called a 'metopic suture' or 'sutura frontalis persistens. ' If the suture is not present at birth (craniosynostosis) it will cause a keel-shaped deformity of the skull called 'trigonocephaly. ' It is present in a fetal skull so that the skull can bend and is very elastic at the time of birth. The baby's head literally bends when coming out of the mother's womb. The space is filled as the child grows older. [WP,unvetted] |
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