Lambda (anatomy)

Lambda (anatomy)
Side view of head, showing surface relations of bones. (Lambda labeled at center right.)
Identifiers
TA	A02.1.00.017
FMA	264773
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The occipital angle is rounded and corresponds with the point of meeting of the sagittal and the lambdoid suture—a point which is termed the lambda (after the Greek letter of the same name whose lowercase form resembles the junction formed by the sutures); in the fetus this part of the skull is membranous, and is called the posterior fontanelle.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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lesson1 at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)

Compound structures of skull

Neurocranium	Calvaria Diploë Asterion Pterion Stephanion Inion Bregma Lambda Fossae anterior middle posterior cranial cavity Base of skull Fontanelle anterior posterior sphenoidal mastoid

Facial skeleton	Nasion Gonion

Both	dacryon zygomatic arch temporal fossa infratemporal fossa pterygomaxillary fissure pterygopalatine fossa

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