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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)