What is "interparietal suture"

Sagittal \Sag"it*tal\, a. [L. sagitta an arrow: cf. F. sagittal.]

1. Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.

2. (Anat.)

   1. Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of the skull.

   2. In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal.

      Sagittal suture (Anat.), the suture between the two parietal bones in the top of the skull; -- called also rabdoidal suture, and interparietal suture.

n. the suture uniting the two parietal bones [syn: sagittal suture, sutura sagittalis]