Lambda (anatomy)

Top view of the rat skull : Schematic location of Bregma and Lambda

Location of Lambda

In anatomy, the lambda is the point on the skull where the sutura lambdoidea ( lambda suture ), which separates the occipital bone ( os occipitale ) from the two parietal bones ( ossa parietalia ), and the sutura sagittalis (arrow suture ), which separates the two parietal bones separate, meet. It is important in craniometry .

In newborns, this is where the triangular posterior fontanel ( fonticulus posterior ) lies , which closes at 3 months of age.

Individual evidence

↑ Alban Koehler: Limits of the normal and the beginnings of the pathological in the radiology of the child and adult skeleton . Georg Thieme, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-13-362214-1 , p. 357 .
↑ Horst Claassen: compact knowledge of head and neck anatomy: for dentistry students, dentists, maxillofacial, oral, head and neck surgeons, orthodontists, dental technicians . Walter de Gruyter, 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-058572-8 , pp. 33 .

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[1] Alban Koehler: Limits of the normal and the beginnings of the pathological in the radiology of the child and adult skeleton . Georg Thieme, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-13-362214-1 , p. 357 .

[2] Horst Claassen: compact knowledge of head and neck anatomy: for dentistry students, dentists, maxillofacial, oral, head and neck surgeons, orthodontists, dental technicians . Walter de Gruyter, 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-058572-8 , pp. 33 .

Lambda (anatomy)

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