a. [a. F. lambdoïde, ad. mod.L. lambdoīdēs, ad. Gr. λαμβδοειδ-ής: see LAMBDA and -OID.] = LAMBDOIDAL 1.

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1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 42/2. In the end of the suture lamdoid, behind vnder the eare.

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1741.  Monro, Anat. (ed. 3), 70. The old Anatomists reckoned the proper Lambdoid Suture to terminate at the Squamous Sutures.

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1866.  Huxley, Preh. Rem. Caithn., 88. There is a large Wormian bone in the right crus of the lambdoid suture.

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