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- noun Plural form of
fontanel .
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Examples
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Your baby’s skull has two soft spots called fontanels areas where the bones haven’t completely fused.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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They’re called fontanels, and they’re the membrane-covered openings at the points where the plates of the skull haven’t yet fused together yet.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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They’re called fontanels, and they’re the membrane-covered openings at the points where the plates of the skull haven’t yet fused together yet.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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They’re called fontanels, and they’re the membrane-covered openings at the points where the plates of the skull haven’t yet fused together yet.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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They’re called fontanels, and they’re the membrane-covered openings at the points where the plates of the skull haven’t yet fused together yet.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Your baby’s skull has two soft spots called fontanels areas where the bones haven’t completely fused.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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FISH: fluorescence in situ hybridization — the laboratory test used to identify extra or missing pieces of chromosomal material that are often too small to detect under the microscope. fontanels: the soft spots of the skull in babies.
Glossary 2004
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Other, less common, problems include: bony abnormalities — such as extra fingers, extra ribs, a missing forearm bone and spine problems that sometime leads to spine curvature (scoliosis) spina bifida juvenile rheumatoid arthritis or other autoimmune disorders, such as ideopathic thrombocytopenia, vitiligo and Graves disease eye problems, such as colobomas premature fusion of the "soft spots" (fontanels) — called craniosynstosis emotional or psychological problems intestinal malrotation diaphragmatic hernia
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To get rid of the scales, you can massage the scalp with mineral oil or petroleum jelly, remembering to be gentle around the fontanels the soft spots on the top of her head.
Be Prepared Gary Greenberg 2004
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To get rid of the scales, you can massage the scalp with mineral oil or petroleum jelly, remembering to be gentle around the fontanels the soft spots on the top of her head.
Be Prepared Gary Greenberg 2004
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