Frontal bone. Outer surface. ("Remains of frontal suture" identified at center.)
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The frontal suture is a dense connective tissue structure that divides the two halves of the frontal bone of the skull in infants and children. It usually disappears by the age of six, with the two halves of the frontal bone being fused together. If it does not disappear it may be called a "metopic suture" or "sutura frontalis persistens." This may manifest as a keel-shaped deformity of the skull called "trigonocephaly."
References
"Frontal Suture." Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 27th ed. (2000). (
Moore, Keith L. and T.V.N. Persaud. The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 7th ed. (2003).
