"soft spot," or anterior fontanelle, which is flat and soft while the child is quiet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Bulging fontanelle (soft spot on top of the baby's head).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hemorrhagic Stroke] Reference

If a fontanelle feels very sunken, it can be a sign of dehydration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph.D. and Jacqueline Nardi Eg: Using Your 5 Senses to Make Sense of Your Baby's Body Signs] Reference

A full or bulging fontanelle soft spot located on the top of the head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beauty of Love] Reference

Feel the child for skin elasticity, pulse rate and sunken fontanelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

The head was large, fontanelle open -- superficial veins more apparent than natural.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks on the Subject of Lactation] Reference

The pulse of a sleeping child can often be counted at the anterior fontanelle by the eye alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

She glanced down at the top of the baby's head, at the translucent pulse beneath his fontanelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteen Minutes]

His wife didn't approve of his profession anymore, saw it as a soft spot in the skull like a baby's fontanelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Snowbank] Reference

She is dwarf-sized but has no other symptoms except for a slightly large head, hands and feet, low-set ears and a fontanelle that won't close.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sticks and Stones] Reference

I'd felt Robert's head with my fingers for years after infancy to make sure that the bones had joined over the exposed fontanelle, the soft spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black and Blue]

It is a matter of ordinary observation that in infants, during sleep, the volume of the brain becomes less, since the fontanelle is found to sink in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference

The pulse may be watched at the anterior fontanelle or soft spot on top of the head while the child quietly sleeps and should record, at varying ages, as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

Just back of the forehead is formed a diamond-shaped soft spot known as the anterior fontanelle which should measure a little more than one inch from side to side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

Lack of fontanelle (soft spot) on a newborn's head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference

The fontanelle is just anterior to the center of the skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The fontanelle also normally bulges when the infant is crying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

A bulging fontanelle may indicate elevated intracranial pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Why not inject Pop Rocks and gin directly into the brain through the fontanelle?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anorak News] Reference

An additional fontanelle is sometimes seen in the sagittal suture at the region of the obelion.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull] Reference

An exploring needle is introduced at the lateral angle of the anterior fontanelle, to avoid the superior sagittal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Other symptoms are neck stiffness, mild fever, loss of appetite, jaundice, spasm and bulging of fontanelle (soft spot on the top portion of the skull).    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Infant may be hypotonic, neck is often not stiff, fontanelle bulging even when not crying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 12] Reference

She is dwarf-sized but has no other symptoms except for a slightly large head, hands and feet, low-set ears and a fontanelle that won’t close.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sticks and Stones | Her Bad Mother] Reference

Exit below the fontanelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams of Reality, 5] Reference

“You know my fontanelle never closed!” —.    From Wordnik.com.  ['30 Rock' recap: Do the robot | EW.com] Reference

That circle of shiny skin behind his fontanelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Worst Thing I've Done] Reference

Bulging fontanelle following DPT.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brain Blogger] Reference

Early disappearance of the fontanelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference

A sunken fontanelle may indicate dehydration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Sunken fontanelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

A sunken fontanelle eyes that are a little sunken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

"anterior fontanelle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

· very sunken fontanelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference