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SPHENOIDAL FONTANELLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sphenoidal fontanelle mean?
• SPHENOIDAL FONTANELLE (noun)
The noun SPHENOIDAL 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: SPHENOIDAL FONTANELLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SPHENOIDAL FONTANELLE (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 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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