SPHENOID FONTANEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sphenoid fontanel mean? 

• SPHENOID FONTANEL (noun)
  The noun SPHENOID FONTANEL 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 FONTANEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPHENOID FONTANEL (noun)

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 fontanel" is a kind of...):

fontanel; fontanelle; soft spot (any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus)