fontanelle
A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial…A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.
» The fontanelle allows for a baby's skull growth.
Meaning
2 sensesA soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.
Fontanelle
родничо́кrodničók, те́мечкоtémečko
джере́льцеdžerélʹce, ті́м'ячкоtímʺjačko
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.
- any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus
Examples
3 sentencesThe fontanelle allows for a baby's skull growth.
The baby's fontanelle was soft.
Doctors monitored the fontanelle's closure.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from French fontanelle, from Old French fontenelle, a diminutive of fontaine (“foBorrowed from French fontanelle, from Old French fontenelle, a diminutive of fontaine (“fountain, spring”) + -elle, from Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from font- + -ānus. By surface analysis, font + -an + -elle.
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