fontanelle

Introduction

One of several membraneous intervals at the margins of the cranial bones in the infant.

[French: dim of fontaine, fountain, spring]

More general terms

• anatomic structure

More specific terms

• frontal/anterior/bregmatic fontanelle
• mastoid/posterolateral/Casser fontanelle
• occipital/posterior fontanelle
• sphenoidal/anterolateral fontanelle

Component of

• skull (cranium)