| 单词 | facial suture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfacial suture facial suture n. (a) Anatomy any of the sutures between the bones constituting the facial skeleton; (b) Palaeontology any of the sutures on the trilobite cephalon along which the parts of the latter separate during moulting. ΚΠ 1836 Lancet 5 Mar. 918/1 The operator next cut through..the malar bone, at the transverse facial suture, into the spheno-maxillary fissure. 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. iii. 188 The position of the facial suture..affords characters for distinguishing genera. 1946 H. Woods Palæontol. Invertebr. (ed. 8) 354 Each cheek is usually divided into two portions by a suture (the facial suture..); the inner part—that between the facial suture and the glabella—is termed the fixed cheek. 2005 Seminars in Orthodontics 11 199/2 Growth of the midfacial skeleton occurs mainly at the facial sutures. < as lemmas |
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