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Of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses). The coronal light during the eclipse is faint. Abney.

The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.

Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.

rincipal gaseous substance forming the solar corona, characterized by a green line in the coronal spectrum.

rs, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. Pope.

d name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in the form of a horsehoe. -- Horsehoe nail. See Horsenail. -- Horsehoe nose (Zoöl.), a bat of the genus Rhinolophus, having…

de of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.