A suture‘s fibrous connective tissue helps protect the brain and form the face by strongly uniting the adjacent skull bones.
Sutures form a tight union that prevents most movement between the bones. Most sutures are named for the bones they articulate.
Skull sutures visible from the side (norma lateralis) include the frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, sphenoid, and zygomatic bones, while skull sutures visible from the front (norma frontalis) and above (norma verticalis) include those related to the frontal and parietal bones.
Skull sutures visible from below (norma basalis) include the frontal, ethmoid, and sphenoid bones.

fontanelle: An anatomical feature of the infant human skull comprising the soft membranous gaps.
Sharpey’s fibres: A matrix of connective tissue consisting of bundles of strong collagenous fibers connecting periosteum to bone.
suture: A type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull (cranium).

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