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Video: Sutures of the skull
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Did you know that our brains are surrounded by a puzzle?! That’s right, intricate bony puzzle pieces fit together to form your skull! Each of these large bony puzzle pieces come together at 4 main ...
Read moreDid you know that our brains are surrounded by a puzzle?! That’s right, intricate bony puzzle pieces fit together to form your skull! Each of these large bony puzzle pieces come together at 4 main sutures known as: the Coronal suture, the Sagittal suture, the Lambdoid suture, and the Squamous suture.
These sutures keep the boney puzzle pieces of our skull together, preventing us from having cracked skulls! Therefore the next time you can’t remember the names of these sutures, you just have to think about what they do because: Cracked, Skulls, Lack, Sutures!
