The sagittal plane, also known as the longitudinal plane, divides the body into left and right halves. Movements that occur in the sagittal (longitudinal) plane involve forward and backward movements.

The problem with being so sagittal that you ignore the other two planes: frontal and transverse. The frontal plane divides the body into front and back halves and involves side-to-side movements.

Balolia said: "If sagittal crest size and social behaviour are linked in this way, then we could potentially establish that some of our extinct human relatives had a gorilla-like social system.

AMSTERDAM — Positive sagittal malalignment increased the severity of disability after multilevel cervical fusion, as demonstrated by its negative effect on health-related quality of life as seen ...

Those with damage to the right sagittal stratum tended to have trouble recognizing sarcasm, the researchers found. This bundle of neural fibers connects a number of brain regions, including those ...

Mid-Sagittal MRI of the Lumbar Spine. Left (T1-weighted image); Right (T2-weighted image). On this view centered over the lumbar spine, one can see all five lumbar vertebrae in addition to the sacrum ...

Patients typically present with a prominent headache. In addition, thrombosis of the superior sagittal sinus classically presents with bilateral leg weakness, as the superior sagittal sinus is midline ...

The first successful separation of craniopagus twins who went on to have long-term survival was reported by Voris et al. 3 in 1957; since then, there have been only modest advances in separation ...

Cerebral venous thrombosis is an unusual cerebrovascular disorder that is of current interest, in part because of rare cases associated with certain of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19 ...