Usually means: Soft spot on baby's skull.
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  1. fontanel: Merriam-Webster
  2. fontanel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fontanel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fontanel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fontanel: Vocabulary.com
  6. fontanel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. fontanel (fontanelle): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. fontanel: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. fontanel: Dictionary.com
  10. Fontanel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Fontanel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. fontanel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. fontanel: Rhymezone
  14. Fontanel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. fontanel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. fontanel: FreeDictionary.org
  17. fontanel: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  19. fontanel: Wordnik
  20. fontanel: Wiktionary

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  1. fontanel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. fontanel: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fontanel (fontanelle): MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. fontanel: Medical dictionary
  6. Fontanel (fontanelle): Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Fontanel)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of fontanelle [(anatomy) A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.]

Similar:
fontanelle, soft spot, truncus, occiput, skull, macrocephaly, bulbus, sutural, calvarium, cavum, more...

Opposite:
suture, cranial suture, skull seam

Types:
anterior, posterior, sphenoid, mastoid, more...

Phrases:
anterior fontanel, posterior fontanel, sphenoid fontanel, sphenoidal fontanel, mastoid fontanel, more...

Adjectives:
anterior, posterior, larger, bulging, smaller, open, sunken, full, depressed, tense, fallen

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Similar:
fontanelle, soft spot, truncus, occiput, skull, macrocephaly, bulbus, sutural, calvarium, cavum, more...

Opposite:
suture, cranial suture, skull seam

Types:
anterior, posterior, sphenoid, mastoid, more...

Phrases:
anterior fontanel, posterior fontanel, sphenoid fontanel, sphenoidal fontanel, mastoid fontanel, fontanel (fontanelle), Fontanel Mansion, more...

Adjectives:
anterior, posterior, larger, bulging, smaller, open, sunken, full, depressed, tense, fallen



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