GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sutural bones are supernumerary small bones sporadically found in the course of cranial sutures and fontanels or isolated. Sutural bones articulate with the surrounding bones by sutures with indentations more complex on the outer surface of the human skull than on the inner aspect.

Detailed explanation-2: -Definitions of sutural bone. any of the tiny soft bones found in the sutures between cranial bones. synonyms: Wormian bone. type of: bone, os. rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wormian bones, also known as intra sutural bones are extra bone pieces that occur within a suture in the cranium. These are irregular isolated bones which appear in addition to the usual centers of ossification of the cranium and, although unusual, are not rare.