The fontanel is the soft spot on the top of a newborn baby's head. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
FEIGIN: You have a spot called the fontanel but the thickness of the skull is minimal and it ` s easily fractured with not a whole lot of force. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2009] Reference
· Feel the soft spot on top of the head (fontanel). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 26] Reference
His fontanel, the "soft spot" on the top of the head, was swollen and hard. From Wordnik.com. [Sentenced to Live] Reference
Feat fire first ammendment first post first-in-line flora and fauna fog fontanel food. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2002-10-01] Reference
· In babies under a year old: the fontanel (soft spot on top of the head) bulges out. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 21] Reference
In another back bedroom, there was a mushy hole beneath the linoleum, a soft spot, like a baby's fontanel. From Wordnik.com. [Repossessed] Reference
The larger fontanel usually closes by eighteen months after the birth; the smaller one closes by two to six months. From Wordnik.com. [Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn] Reference
She'd spend hours on her bed with Josie beside her, touching her baby's skin, her seed-pearl toes, the pulse of her fontanel. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Minutes]
A large, diamond-shaped fontanel is on the top front portion of her skull, and a smaller, triangle-shaped one is at the back. From Wordnik.com. [Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn] Reference
A roofline so soft and round it practically has a fontanel; huge and slightly unfocused headlamps; a grille that seems to be missing a binkie. From Wordnik.com. [For the Cheerleader in Everyone] Reference
Because they are bred to be so tiny, Chihuahuas are born with a soft fontanel on their skull, like a human baby, that they never completely lose. From Wordnik.com. [Pets] Reference
The tip of the tongue points straight to the fontanel at the top of the head (the 'soft' spot) and is reputed to open up the nadis or energy channels in the body. From Wordnik.com. [Suzie Heumann: The Curious Association Of The G-Spot And The Upper Palate] Reference
As the other man drew back to bring a blow directly to the soft fontanel in the center of the skull, Arkady savagely brought his foot up to that larger, softer area between the legs. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
At birth the baby had frontal bossing with sun setting eyes and full anterior fontanel. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
She also had a "bulging fontanel," or an outwardly curving soft stop in her skull caused by fluid build-up. From Wordnik.com. [West Virginia Record] Reference
"And I think, Khun Sukum, you had better examine the top of the victim's skull, in the area of the fontanel; you might want to pull at the hair in that area, give it a good tug, that's right.". From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
In infants, it could be enlargement of the head, full and tense fontanel (soft area on top of a baby's head), stretched and thinscalp with prominent veins, refusal to accept feeds, downward deviation of the eyes and seizures. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Important signs of encephalitis to watch for in an infant include vomiting, body stiffness, constant crying that may become worse when the child is picked up, and a full or bulging fontanel (the soft spot on the top of the head). From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
When the planet’s fontanel yields to his fingerings, he rides, rides, covers his ears against a rumor he cannot bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Best American Poetry 2010] Reference
In infants, it’s a little harder to tell, with the main symptoms being hard-core irritability, jaundice, fever or low temperature, or a bulging fontanel the soft spot in the skull. From Wordnik.com. [You Raising Your Child] Reference
Soft spot=fontanel. From Wordnik.com. [Regretsy – Resistance is Cute] Reference
I must've hurt his little fontanel. From Wordnik.com. [:::Philebrity...media, culture, music and more:::] Reference
• Large fontanel (soft spot) • Prolonged jaundice. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Here, besides in the heart, they are located at the coccyx, the solar plexus, the three nodes of the heart, the thymus, the throat center, the third ventricle of the brain, the brain stem, the third eye, the fontanel, and the grey layer of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Kurt Barstow - The extended you: body, mind, and spirit] Reference
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