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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  

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Entry terms

  • Cranial Fontanel
  • Cranial Fontanels
  • Fontanel, Cranial
  • Fontanels, Cranial

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 2009

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D055762

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