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fontanelle

One of several membraneous intervals at the margins of the cranial bones in the infant. [French: dim of fontaine, fountain, spring]

Specific

frontal/anterior/bregmatic fontanelle mastoid/posterolateral/Casser fontanelle occipital/posterior fontanelle sphenoidal/anterolateral fontanelle

General

anatomic structure

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.

Component-of

skull (cranium)