SAGITTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sagittal mean? 

• SAGITTAL (adjective)
  The adjective SAGITTAL has 1 sense:

1. located in a plane that is parallel to the central plane of the sagittal suture

  Familiarity information: SAGITTAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAGITTAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Located in a plane that is parallel to the central plane of the sagittal suture

Similar:

mesial (being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body)

 Context examples 

The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.

(Lambda Sutural Junction, NCI Thesaurus)

This placement creates a 12 lead ECG that allows the acquisition of simultaneous events in the frontal, horizontral and sagittal heart planes with the linear transformation of vectors.

(Lead Placement EASI Dower Transformation, NCI Thesaurus)

Presentation of image views other than the standard coronal, sagittal and transaxial views.

(Image Reorientation, NCI Thesaurus)

This plane is perpendicular to both the transaxial and sagittal.

(Coronal Plane, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel formed by the union of the two internal cerebral veins that drains the cerebrum and joins with the inferior sagittal sinus to form the straight sinus.

(Great Cerebral Vein of Galen, NCI Thesaurus)

The sinus receives blood from the great cerebral vein and joins the superior sagittal sinus posteriorly.

(Inferior Sagittal Sinus, NCI Thesaurus)