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Definition of Fontanelle

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

Definition of Fontanelle

1. n. Same as Fontanel, 2.

Definition of Fontanelle

1. Noun. A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fontanelle

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Fontanelle

1. A soft spot, such as one of the membrane covered spaces (fonticuli cranii) remaining in the incompletely ossified skull of a foetus or infant. They are membranous spaces at the juncture of an infant's cranial bones that later ossify. (12 Nov 1997)

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Literary usage of Fontanelle

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

1. Field Hearing on "Education at a Crossroads, What Works? What's Wasted edited by Peter Hoekstra (2000)
"fontanelle, Iowa. He's going to be leaving shortly after his testimony. He has a new student that was just bom within the last few days and he has to take a ..."

2. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1897)
"fontanelle, CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE. Dr. Abt (Medicine, vol. ii., No. ... From birth to the ninth month the fontanelle decreases gradually ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"Nevertheless, it is very difficult, from the details of his cases, to specify what were or were not original presentations of the anterior fontanelle. ..."

4. The Lancet (1842)
"... and sallow complexion ; her head is very large, flat on the summit, and very broad from side to side; the anterior fontanelle is very open, ..."

5. A Manual of midwifery for students and practitioners by Henry Jellett (1910)
"Posterior fontanelle Presentation— /Etiology—Positions—Diagnosis—Mechanism—Moulding—Treatment — Prognosis. FACE PRESENTATION A FACE presentation ..."

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