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abnormal coronal suture morphology +   
abnormal lambdoid suture morphology +   
abnormal metopic suture morphology +   
any structural anomaly of the dense, fibrous connective tissue joint between the frontal bones from the sagittal suture to the root of the nose; it is visible in neonates and juveniles, but it is frequently obliterated in some adult organisms; in mice and rats, the posterior frontal (PF) suture, situated between the frontal bones, is analogous to the human metopic suture; the anterior landmark for the PF suture is the jugum limitans; the posterior landmark for the PF suture is the bregma
abnormal sagittal suture morphology +   
abnormal sphenosquamosal suture morphology 
abnormal squamoparietal suture morphology 
cranial suture sclerosis +   
wide cranial sutures +   
Wormian bones  

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: abnormal frontal suture morphology ;   abnormal interfrontal suture morphology ;   abnormal median frontal suture morphology ;   abnormal mediofrontal suture morphology
Definition Sources: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6490-7723, https://radiopaedia.org/articles/metopic-suture, ISBN:0803606559, PMID:15882577

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