Sometimes, though, the frontal suture can be seen into adulthood, and this variation is called a metopic suture.

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, in the ...

This is only possible because all the cranial sutures are still wide open. After birth, the human brain grows extremely quickly, especially the large frontal lobes.

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Specifically, there were fewer mesenchymal cells separating the skull bones and the mutant coronal suture was close to fusing.

Cranial bones may move forward (anterior), upward, or a combination of both. An upward push may increase the posterior skull height, called vaulting, and may also affect the frontal bones (forehead).

We are investigating the relationship between the graded fibronectin expression and the apical expansion of calvarial bones and the patency of the cranial sutures, which are the junctions between ...

The infant’s skull consists of the Metopic suture, Coronal suture, Sagittal suture and Lambdoid suture. The problems in these sutures can lead to pathologic plagiocephaly brachycephaly and so on.