cranial suture in dogs
Fibrous joint in which the articulating bones or cartilages of the skull are connected by sutural ligaments (scant amount of collagenous dense connective tissue). Examples: sagittal suture, frontal suture. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the cranial suture is
Fibrous joint in which the articulating bones or cartilages of the skull are connected by sutural ligaments (scant amount of collagenous dense connective tissue). Examples: sagittal suture, frontal suture. The atlas records it as a joint at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the cranial suture is
It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the cranial suture connects to
The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, anatomical system and cranium, and 1 more.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cranial suture. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.
Also called
Also recorded as sutura, suture, cranium suture, suture joint of skull and suture of cranium. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003685, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: anatomical structure, anatomical system, cranium and skeletal system.
- A kind of: fibrous joint.
- Adjacent to: fontanelle.
- subtype: cartilaginous joint suture, coronal suture, fontanelle, frontal suture, lambdoid suture and median palatine suture, and 2 more.
- contributes to morphology of: cranium.
Questions
Where is the cranial suture?
It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the cranial suture connect to?
Part of: anatomical structure, anatomical system, cranium and skeletal system.
Is the cranial suture the same in other species?
This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.