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Tissues > Connective Tissue > Bone and Bones > Skull > Cranial Fontanelles
Musculoskeletal System > Skeleton > Bone and Bones > Skull > Cranial Fontanelles

Preferred term

Cranial Fontanelles  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Any of six membrane-covered openings between the CRANIAL SUTURES in the incompletely ossified skull of the fetus or newborn infant. The fontanelles normally close sometime after birth.

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Entry terms

  • Cranial Fontanel

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-KKTJZ3TS-0

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