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SPHENOID FONTANELLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sphenoid fontanelle mean?
• SPHENOID FONTANELLE (noun)
The noun SPHENOID FONTANELLE has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: SPHENOID FONTANELLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
sphenoid fontanel; sphenoid fontanelle; sphenoidal fontanel; sphenoidal fontanelle
Hypernyms ("sphenoid fontanelle" is a kind of...):
fontanel; fontanelle; soft spot (any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus)
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