Schädelnähte

Sagittal

section of skull. This is a drawing of the head of a newborn baby as seen from above, showing the fontanelles and sutures. Originally the picture has been published in 1918 and therefore lapsed into the public domain. The original terms have been deleted and German and Latin terms have been added.

The adult

skull is normally made up of 22 bones. Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, semi-rigid articulations formed by bony ossification, the presence of Sharpey"s fibres permitting a little flexibility