SPHENOIDAL FONTANEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sphenoidal fontanel mean? 

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPHENOIDAL 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 ("sphenoidal fontanel" is a kind of...):

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