fontanelle

How To Use fontanelle In A Sentence

• The sutures are, in effect, grooves between the bones of the skull and the fontanelles are small areas where the sutures meet.
• Between the ages 7 to 20 months the fontanelle, temples and back of head are particularly vulnerable when an infant is learning to walk.
• This cup placement maintains flexion of the fetal head and avoids traction over the anterior fontanelle.
• An additional fontanelle is sometimes seen in the sagittal suture at the region of the obelion. II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull
• This cup placement maintains flexion of the fetal head and avoids traction over the anterior fontanelle.
• The sutures are, in effect, grooves between the bones of the skull and the fontanelles are small areas where the sutures meet.
• At a time when the Church was desperate to believe that Earth was the centre of the universe, pluralist de Fontanelle delighted in a contrary concept.
• They occur most frequently in the course of the lambdoidal suture, but are occasionally seen at the fontanelles, especially the posterior. II. Osteology. 5a. 6. Ethmoid bone
• Occasionally a deficiency in the osseous material of the cranium or an abnormal dilatation of the fontanelles gives rise to a hernia of the meninges, which, if accompanied by cerebrospinal fluid in any quantity, causes a large and peculiarly shaped tumor called meningocele. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
• The fontanelles are usually closed by the growth and extension of the bones which surround them, but sometimes they are the sites of separate ossific centers which develop into sutural bones. II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull