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Lambdoid

Lambdoid \Lamb"doid\, a. [Gr. ?, la`mbda the letter lambda ([Lambda]) + e"i^dos shape.] Shaped like the Greek letter lambda ([Lambda]); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.

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lambdoid

a. Shaped like the Greek letter lambda: image:Greek_uc_lamda.png

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Usage examples of "lambdoid".

The scars could be made out, but there was nothing of that yielding either side of the sagittal suture and a little above the lambdoid that had worried Dr Maturin.

Donne describes an athletic laborer of twenty-five who received a wound from a rifle-ball penetrating the cranial parietes immediately in the posterior superior angle of the parietal bone, and a few lines from the lambdoid suture.