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anterior fontanel

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anterior fontanel,
a diamond-shaped unossified area between the frontal and two parietal bones just above an infant's forehead at the junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures. Also called
Usage notes: (informal)
soft spot. See also fontanel.


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Doyan noted that the infant appeared ill and dehydrated with a sunken anterior fontanel.
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By twelve months old, your child should have tripled birth weight, have grown to a height of 50 per cent over birth length, to have a head circumference equal to that of the chest, have six to eight teeth and have a nearlyclosed anterior fontanel (the front soft spot on the head).
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Examination of the head revealed molding and a cranial bruit heard through the anterior fontanel.
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