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Definition of Fontanel

1. Noun. Any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus.

Definition of Fontanel

1. n. An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.

Definition of Fontanel

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of fontanelle) ¹

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Definition of Fontanel

1. a space in the fetal and infantile skull [n -S]

Medical Definition of Fontanel

1. 1. An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body. 2. One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a foetal or young skull; so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation. In the human foetus there are six fontanels, of which the anterior, or bregmatic, situated at the junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures, is much the largest, and remains open a considerable time after birth. Origin: F. Fontanelle, prop, a little fountain, fr. Fontaine fountain. See Fountain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Fontanel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: Their Dietetic, Hygienic, and Medical by Louis Fischer (1917)
"The anterior fontanel normally closes between the sixteenth and twentieth months. If the fontanel is open at the end of the second year, then rickets or ..."

2. The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt, John Howland (1911)
"The posterior fontanel is usually oblit crated by the end of the second month. The anterior fontanel under normal conditions closes on an average at about ..."

3. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1858)
"rior fontanel, so as to be as much as possible out of the way of the longitudinal sinus, and the great veins emptying therein. The instant that the pulse ..."

4. A Compend of diagnosis in pathological anatomy: With Directions for Making by Johannes Orth, Reginald Heber Fitz (1878)
"... with saddle-like depressions in the temporal regions ; spheno- cephalic, with wedge-like prominence of the region of the great fontanel. 3. ..."

5. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children by Alfred Vogel (1873)
"suffices to explain the mechanical enlargement of the fontanel. If we think but a little further, that if only one of the above-named principal sutures—the ..."

6. Principles and practice of obstetrics by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1918)
"Four sutures run into the large fontanel, which fact 3s it from the others, and, of its angles, three are obtuse and one acute, ts enable us to diagnose the ..."

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