limbous

English

Etymology

See limbus.

Adjective

limbous (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) With slightly overlapping borders; said of a suture.
   • 1996, Don Cohen, An Introduction to Craniosacral Therapy: Anatomy, Function, and Treatment:

     There are two types of squamous sutures: limbous sutures have mutual ridges or serrations, and the more common plane sutures, which exhibit less structured surfaces which are mutually roughened, such as the temporoparietal suture, the suture between the two maxillae, or the meeting of the zygomatic and palatine bones.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “limbous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)