1.1Anatomy Relating to or denoting the suture near the back of the skull, which connects the parietal bones with the occipital.
〔剖〕（颅骨后背附近连接顶骨与枕骨的）人字缝的
Example sentencesExamples
Anesthesia was required for upper eyelid to scalp line from midline to lambdoid suture.
The ipsilateral ear in lambdoid synostosis is displaced posteriorly toward the fused suture compared with the anterior displacement that occurs in infants with deformational plagiocephaly.
However, surgery is almost always indicated for the correction of lambdoid synostosis.
Metopic craniosynostosis accounts for 7% of cases, and lambdoid craniosynostosis accounts for 1% of cases.
Derivatives
lambdoidal
adjective
Using the same bicoronal incision, the neurosurgeon retracts the scalp to expose the cranium from the coronal suture to the lambdoidal suture.
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There is little development of the lambdoidal crest but in some specimens it is slightly better developed than in others.
The coronal, lambdoidal, sagittal, and squamosal sutures close clinically between six to 12 months of age but do not ossify completely until after 30 years of age.
The most posterior point of the skull is the junction of the interparietal and supraoccipitals which is marked by a poorly developed lambdoidal ridge.
The condition can result from either premature closure of the lambdoidal suture (synostotic plagiocephaly) or positional head deformity (nonsynostotic plagiocephaly).
Definition of lambdoid in US English:
lambdoid
adjectiveˈlæmdɔɪdˈlamdoid
1Resembling the Greek letter lambda in form.
似λ形的，人字形的
1.1Anatomy Relating to or denoting the suture near the back of the skull, which connects the parietal bones with the occipital.
〔剖〕（颅骨后背附近连接顶骨与枕骨的）人字缝的
Example sentencesExamples
The ipsilateral ear in lambdoid synostosis is displaced posteriorly toward the fused suture compared with the anterior displacement that occurs in infants with deformational plagiocephaly.
Anesthesia was required for upper eyelid to scalp line from midline to lambdoid suture.
Metopic craniosynostosis accounts for 7% of cases, and lambdoid craniosynostosis accounts for 1% of cases.
However, surgery is almost always indicated for the correction of lambdoid synostosis.