Sphenoidal Fontanel

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the irregularly shaped area on either side of the cranium where the frontal bone and the anterior tip of the parietal bone and the temporal bone and the greater wing of the sphenoid bone meet

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: sphenoid fontanelle
plural: Sphenoidal Fontanels
possessive: Sphenoidal Fontanel's
pluralpossessive: Sphenoidal Fontanels'

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