Definitions for sagittal

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sagittal sag·it·tal

Spelling: [saj-i-tl]

IPA: /ˈsædʒ ɪ tl/

Sagittal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in sagittal (aagilstt).

Definitions for sagittal

adjective

1. Anatomy. of or relating to the suture between the parietal bones at the roof of the skull or to a venous canal within the skull and parallel to this suture. (in direction or location) from front to back in the median plane or in a plane parallel to the median.
2. pertaining to or resembling an arrow or arrowhead.

Origin of sagittal

From the New Latin word sagittālis, dating back to 1535-45. See Sagitta, -al¹

Examples for sagittal

In Tholospira also the second girdle is complete, and the spiral growth begins from the third or sagittal girdle.

Its position is well seen in a sagittal section, such as Fig. 117.

From the base of the sagittal ring there arise in the horizontal basal plane two pairs of lateral branches or "basal apophyses."

An internal ascending procolumna (rod c1 in the figure of Btschli) connects the basal and ventral rods of the sagittal ring.

One of the annular constrictions is constantly in the sagittal plane (separating the right and left halves of the shell).

The shell is composed of all three above-mentioned elements, of a sagittal ring, a basal tripod, and a latticed cephalis.

Also in this second system the transverse girdle is first developed, secondly the lateral girdle, thirdly the sagittal girdle.

But in the Eutympanida both rings exhibit one simple gate only, the apical and the basal rod of the sagittal ring being lost.

The third or sagittal girdle becomes developed from the second almost in the same manner as the second from the first.

A sagittal septum sometimes becomes developed, beginning with two polar beams, rising from the poles of the principal axis.