Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.
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.
In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal.
parallel to the median plane (which contains the sagittal suture of the skull).
adjective, Latin sagitta = arrow, because the sagittal suture is notched posteriorly, like an arrow, by the lambdoid sutures.
Related to the imaginary plane that divides a human into right and left halves.
from the Latin sagitta, an arrow]: A sagittal plane divides the left side from the right. Hoof anatomy models are often cut into sagittal section. See also: Transversal.
a plane, slice or section of the body cutting from front to back through the sagittal suture of the skull, and continued down through the body in the same direction, dividing it into two parts
Relating to the groove, or suture, that runs front to back along the middle of the human skull.
The plane of section which runs longitudinally through the body dividing it into left and right parts.
A plane or section that divides a structure into right and left portions.
located in a plane that is parallel to the central plane of the sagittal suture
A tomographic imaging plane bisecting the body into left and right parts. [ Chapter 10
(SAHJ-ih-tawl) A vertical plane that divides the body into right and left portions, and includes the midsagittal plane (dividing into equal halves) and the parasagittal plane (dividing into unequal portions).
Through a vertical plane, orientated from front to back.
Vertical planes dividing the body into equal right and left halves.
Relating to the suture between the two parietal bones of the skull in vertebrates. 2. Relating to the sagittal plane, which extends through the midline of a bilateral animal, dividing it into two equal halves.
An image divides the brain into left and right and is particularly good at showing tumors in the exact center of the brain.
an imaginary line extending from the front to the back in the midline of the body.
Refers to a lengthwise cut that divides the body into right and left portions.