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Definition of Sphenoidal fontanelle
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.
Generic synonyms: Fontanel, Fontanelle, Soft Spot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphenoidal Fontanelle
Literary usage of Sphenoidal fontanelle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Atlas of applied (topographical) human anatomy for students and practioners c. 2 by Karl Heinrich von Bardeleben (1906)
"... Triangular Portion of the Inferior Frontal Convolution Occipital Lobe — Lateral
Sinus (Transverse Portion) Mastoid Fontanelle sphenoidal fontanelle Fig. ..."
2. Atlas of applied (topographical) human anatomy for students and practioners c. 2 by Karl Heinrich von Bardeleben (1906)
"... Fontanelle sphenoidal fontanelle Fig.. Convolutions of the Brain and Sutures
of the Skull in the Newborn. ..."
3. Contributions by University of Minnesota Dept. of Anatomy (1922)
"The sphenoidal fontanelle commonly closes in the first 6 month? and the mastoid
fontanelle between 12 and 18 months after birth. ..."
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