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In arthropod
Arthropod

Arthropods are animals belonging to the Scientific classification Arthropoda , and include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and others....
 and vertebrate
Vertebrate

Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata, chordates with Vertebras or Vertebral columns. The grouping sometimes includes the hagfish, which have no vertebrae, but are genetically quite closely related to lampreys, which do have vertebrae....
 anatomy
Anatomy

Anatomy is a branch of biology that is the consideration of the body plan. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy and plant anatomy ....
, the vertex (or cranial vertex) refers to the upper surface of the head.

In humans, the vertex is formed by four bones of the skull
Skull

The skull is a bone structure found in the head of many animals. The skull supports the structures of the face and protects the head against injury....
: the frontal bone
Frontal bone

The frontal bone is a bone in the human skull that resembles a Cockle in form, and consists of two portions:* a vertical portion, the squama frontalis, corresponding with the region of the forehead....
, the two parietal bone
Parietal bone

The parietal bones are bones in the human skull and form, by their union, the sides and roof of the cranium. Each bone is irregularly quadrilateral in form, and has two surfaces, four borders, and four angles....
s, and the occipital bone
Occipital bone

The occipital bone, a saucer-shaped membrane bone situated at the back and lower part of the skull, is trapezoid in shape and curved on itself. It is pierced by a large oval aperture, the foramen magnum, through which the cranial cavity communicates with the vertebral canal....
. These bones are connected by the coronal suture
Coronal suture

The coronal suture is a dense, fibrous connective tissue joint that separates the frontal bone and parietal bone bones of the skull. At birth, the bones of the skull do not meet....
 between the frontal and parietal bones, the sagittal suture
Sagittal suture

The sagittal suture is a dense, fibrous connective tissue joint between the two parietal bones of the skull. At birth, the bones of the skull do not meet....
 between the two parietal bones, and the lambdoid suture
Lambdoid suture

The lambdoid suture is a dense, fibrous connective tissue joint on the posterior aspect of the skull that connects the parietal bone and temporal bone bones with the occipital bone....
 between the parietal and occipital bones. Vertex baldness refers to a form of male pattern baldness in which the baldness is limited to the vertex, resembling a tonsure
Tonsure

Tonsure is the practice of some Christianity churches, mystics, Buddhist novices and Bhikkhus, and some Hindu temples of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics, devotees or holy people as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem....
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In arthropod
Arthropod

Arthropods are animals belonging to the Scientific classification Arthropoda , and include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and others....
 and vertebrate
Vertebrate

Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata, chordates with Vertebras or Vertebral columns. The grouping sometimes includes the hagfish, which have no vertebrae, but are genetically quite closely related to lampreys, which do have vertebrae....
 anatomy
Anatomy

Anatomy is a branch of biology that is the consideration of the body plan. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy and plant anatomy ....
, the vertex (or cranial vertex) refers to the upper surface of the head.

In humans, the vertex is formed by four bones of the skull
Skull

The skull is a bone structure found in the head of many animals. The skull supports the structures of the face and protects the head against injury....
: the frontal bone
Frontal bone

The frontal bone is a bone in the human skull that resembles a Cockle in form, and consists of two portions:* a vertical portion, the squama frontalis, corresponding with the region of the forehead....
, the two parietal bone
Parietal bone

The parietal bones are bones in the human skull and form, by their union, the sides and roof of the cranium. Each bone is irregularly quadrilateral in form, and has two surfaces, four borders, and four angles....
s, and the occipital bone
Occipital bone

The occipital bone, a saucer-shaped membrane bone situated at the back and lower part of the skull, is trapezoid in shape and curved on itself. It is pierced by a large oval aperture, the foramen magnum, through which the cranial cavity communicates with the vertebral canal....
. These bones are connected by the coronal suture
Coronal suture

The coronal suture is a dense, fibrous connective tissue joint that separates the frontal bone and parietal bone bones of the skull. At birth, the bones of the skull do not meet....
 between the frontal and parietal bones, the sagittal suture
Sagittal suture

The sagittal suture is a dense, fibrous connective tissue joint between the two parietal bones of the skull. At birth, the bones of the skull do not meet....
 between the two parietal bones, and the lambdoid suture
Lambdoid suture

The lambdoid suture is a dense, fibrous connective tissue joint on the posterior aspect of the skull that connects the parietal bone and temporal bone bones with the occipital bone....
 between the parietal and occipital bones. Vertex baldness refers to a form of male pattern baldness in which the baldness is limited to the vertex, resembling a tonsure
Tonsure

Tonsure is the practice of some Christianity churches, mystics, Buddhist novices and Bhikkhus, and some Hindu temples of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics, devotees or holy people as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem....
. In childbirth
Childbirth

Childbirth is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the delivery of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. The process of normal human childbirth is categorized in three stages of labour: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and delivery of the infant, and delivery of the placenta.....
, vertex birth refers to the common head-first presentation of the baby, as opposed to the buttocks-first position of a breech birth
Breech birth

A breech birth is the birth of a baby from a breech presentation. In the breech presentation the baby enters the birth canal with the buttocks or feet first as opposed to the normal cephalic presentation....
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In entomology
Entomology

Entomology is the science study of insects. At some 1.3 million described species, insects account for more than two-thirds of all known organisms,date back some 400 million years, and have many kinds of interactions with humans and other forms of life on earth....
, the color, shape and structures arising from an insect's vertex are commonly used in identifying species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
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