The premature closure of the metopic suture prevents the frontal bones from expanding, leading to the formation of a triangular forehead with a characteristic ridge. The narrowing of the forehead ...

The metopic suture runs from the top of the head and down the middle of the forehead toward the nose. Early closing of this suture may cause a prominent ridge running down the forehead to form ...

Radiology confirmed synostosis of the sagittal and metopic sutures, and he had surgical ... was noticed to have trigonocephaly with a metopic ridge, large anterior fontanelle, low frontal hairline ...

Craniosynostosis is a birth defect in which one or more of the seams (sutures) in a baby’s skull close before the baby’s brain has fully formed. Normally, these sutures stay open until babies ...

Sometimes, though, the frontal suture can be seen into adulthood, and this variation is called a metopic suture. A number of anatomical and bioarchaeological studies have been done on the metopic ...

The soft spot and metopic suture are clearly visible on the skull of the young human (right) and absent in the young chimpanzee (left). Those features are present, although harder to see ...

The Taung child, who died at about four years of age, has something unusual: a suture between the two halves of the frontal bone. According to the research team's analyses, this so-called metopic ...

The first feature is a "persistent metopic suture," or unfused seam, in the frontal bone, which allows a baby's skull to be pliable during childbirth as it squeezes through the birth canal.

The first feature is a "persistent metopic suture," or unfused seam, in the frontal bone, which allows a baby's skull to be pliable during childbirth as it squeezes through the birth canal.