midsagittal plane

[ mid-saj-i-tl ]

nounCraniometry.
  1. a plane passing through the nasion when the skull is oriented in the Frankfurt horizontal.

Origin of midsagittal plane

1
First recorded in 1955–60; mid- + sagittal

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