FONTANELLE

Fontanelle

A fontanelle is an anatomical feature on an infant's skull comprising any of the soft membranous gaps between the incompletely formed cranial bones of a foetus or an infant. Fontanelles allow for rapid stretching and deformation of the cranium as the brain expands faster than the surrounding bone can grow.

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fontanelle

Noun

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


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