SG Heritage Dictionary

Sagittal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; as sagittal bars of yellow.

2. In anatomy, the sagittal suture is the suture which unites the parietal bones of the skull.

Sagittal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. 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.

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