Usually means: Soft spot on baby's skull.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. fontanelle: Merriam-Webster
  2. fontanelle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fontanelle: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fontanelle: Vocabulary.com
  5. Fontanelle, fontanelle: Wordnik
  6. fontanelle: Wiktionary
  7. Fontanelle, fontanelle: Dictionary.com
  8. fontanelle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Fontanelle (Treviso), Fontanelle (album), Fontanelle (disambiguation), Fontanelle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Fontanelle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. fontanelle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. fontanelle: Rhymezone
  13. Fontanelle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. fontanelle: FreeDictionary.org
  15. fontanelle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. fontanelle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fontanelle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. fontanelle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  7. fontanelle: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  8. Fontanelle: Medical dictionary
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fontanelle)

noun:  (anatomy) A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.
noun:  (music) A structural component of some woodwind instruments, such as recorders and shawms, resembling a barrel with holes bored into it, designed to protect the keywork and to allow the sound to project.

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