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Lambdoid suture: magnified reference view with a numbered learning marker. The complete original plate is available in the next view.
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Lambdoid suture

Serrated posterior-vault suture. Joins occipital and parietal bones. Meets sagittal suture at lambda.

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Lambdoid suture: magnified reference view with a numbered learning marker. The complete original plate is available in the next view.

Image: OpenStax College / university open textbook · Source / original · CC BY 4.0

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Lambdoid suture

Sutures & surface landmarks

Lambdoid suture

STRUCTURE & FUNCTION

Understand what you see.

Serrated posterior-vault suture.

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01 / IDENTIFICATION

How to recognise it.

  1. Serrated posterior-vault suture
  2. Joins occipital and parietal bones
  3. Meets sagittal suture at lambda
02 / KEY STRUCTURES

Point them out.

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Related features & study points (2)

Additional relations, attachments or microscopic details to revise alongside this plate. These are separate from its numbered image landmarks.

  • Parietal bones
  • Lambda
03 / VIVA PRACTICE

Think first. Then reveal.

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Examiner-style prompts: identify the structure, explain its relations, then answer the applied follow-up. These are revision questions, not authenticated past papers.

01Identify lambdoid suture and justify your identification.
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Serrated posterior-vault suture. Joins occipital and parietal bones. Meets sagittal suture at lambda.

02What is lambda?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

The junction of sagittal and lambdoid sutures.

03Which infant fontanelle is related to lambda?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

The posterior fontanelle.

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