Definition of Sphenoid fontanel

1. Noun. The irregularly shaped area on either side of the cranium where the frontal bone and the anterior tip of the parietal bone and the temporal bone and the greater wing of the sphenoid bone meet; corresponds to the pterion when bones have ossified.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphenoid Fontanel

sphenoethmoidal recess
sphenoethmoidal suture
sphenoethmoidal synchondrosis
sphenofrontal
sphenofrontal suture
sphenogram
sphenograms
sphenographer
sphenographic
sphenographist
sphenography
sphenoid
sphenoid bone
sphenoid bones
sphenoid crest
sphenoid fontanel (current term)
sphenoid fontanelle
sphenoid process
sphenoid process of palatine bone
sphenoid process of septal cartilage
sphenoid sinus
sphenoid sinuses
sphenoid sinusitis
sphenoidal
sphenoidal angle
sphenoidal angle of parietal bone
sphenoidal border of temporal bone
sphenoidal conchae
sphenoidal fissure
sphenoidal fontanel

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