The Morphological Grading and Comparison of Sutural Patency Among Cranial Sutures in Dry Human Skulls.

Objective: To investigate the degree of fusion (patency) among cranial sutures in human dry skulls in the Anatolia.

Methods: One-hundred fifty-eight human dry skulls that were accepted as adults according to the teeth eruption were macroscopically examined and photographed with Canon 400B (55 mm objective). The grades of fusion of coronal, sagittal, and lambdoid were quantitatively analyzed by using the modified grading scale.

Morphological and Morphometric Analysis of Foramen Magnum: An Anatomical Aspect.

Objective: To investigate the detailed morphological and morphometric analysis of foramen magnum (FM) in dry cranii.

Methods: One hundred fifty skulls of unidentified sex were macroscopically examined and were photographed with Canon 400B (55 mm objective). According to tooth eruption of the skulls, they were accepted as adults.

Coexistence of Wormian Bones With Metopism, and Vice Versa, in Adult Skulls.

Objective: The aim of the study is to investigate coexistence of Wormian bones with metopism, and vice versa, in adult skulls.

Materials And Methods: A total of 160 dry adult human skulls of unknown sex and ages were randomly selected from the Gross Anatomy Laboratory of Medical School of Dokuz Eylul University. The skulls were examined for presence of metopism, Wormian bones (WB), and coexistence of WBs with metopism and vice versa.

Anatomic features of metopic suture in adult dry skulls.

The metopic suture (MS) lies on the midline of the forehead and extends from the frontal bone to the root of the nose. The aim of the current study was to evaluate morphologic features of the complete and incomplete MSs of skulls in the West Anatolian population and rates of the suture types. One hundred sixty crania of West Anatolian people with unknown ages and sex belonging to the anatomy department laboratory of Dokuz Eylül University Medical School were examined.