A study of metopic sutures in human skulls

Abstract The present study has been carried out in fifty-one adult human skulls for metopic sutures in the department of anatomy, Nepalgunj Medical College, Chisapani. Metopic sutures were found in six skulls (11.46 %) This study showed higher incidences of incomplete metopic sutures (7.84 %). One skull showed double incomplete sutures (one to right of bregma and other in the middle of the frontal bone in the mid line), which was of, a very rare variety seen in frontal bone of (1.96 %), three skulls showed incomplete sutures (3.92 %). Though the number of the skulls was small, the study showed a rare morphological variety, which was well correlated with earlier workers