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Definition of Fontanels
1. fontanel [n] - See also: fontanel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fontanels
Literary usage of Fontanels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"The fontanels. The anterior and larger fontanel remains about the same size for
the first year of life, then diminishes, and closes about the twentieth ..."
2. A Practical treatise on the diseases of children by Alfred Vogel (1885)
"These openings, covered only by a membranous tissue, are called fontanels.
Now, since the parietal bone in its developed state has four angles, ..."
3. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"fontanels.—The bones of the head are divided from each other by the ... There is
a very great difference between the anterior and posterior fontanels; ..."
4. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1861)
"Dr. Jacob!, indeed, is disposed to look upon premature closure of the fontanels
and sutures as a fatal fact if the infant exhibits any head symptoms; ..."
5. Clinical Studies for Nurses: A Text-book for Second and Third Year Pupil by Charlotte Albina Aikens (1916)
"The fontanels.—The smaller fontanel closes soon after birth, but the anterior
fontanel remains normally open till the second year. Caput succedaneum is the ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"It is an unquestionable fact, also, that hypertrophy of the brain is occasionally
conjoined with the too early obliteration of the fontanels and sutures ..."
7. Principles and practice of obstetrics by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1918)
"DIAGRAM OF THE SUTURES AND fontanels. e three lines coming together at a point
like the letter Y. The stem of î sagittal suture and runs toward the face. i ..."
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