cranial suture

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 human body.

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 26 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of axial skeletal system, cranium and subdivision of skeletal system.

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.

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: axial skeletal system, cranium and subdivision of skeletal system.

Is the cranial suture the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.