Fontanelle

I was told by one of the faces around me that this was called the "fontanelle," or "soft spot." ❋ Erin Zulkoski (2011)

My mother said its called a fontanelle and that all babies have one. ❋ Nora Raleigh Baskin (2009)

"soft spot," or anterior fontanelle, which is flat and soft while the child is quiet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If a fontanelle feels very sunken, it can be a sign of dehydration. ❋ Jacqueline Nardi Egan (2010)

A full or bulging fontanelle soft spot located on the top of the head ❋ Laura Posada (2010)

His wife didn't approve of his profession anymore, saw it as a soft spot in the skull like a baby's fontanelle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bulging fontanelle (soft spot on top of the baby's head) ❋ Unknown (2006)

The other point on the top of the head is approximately one inch behind the posterior fontanelle and on the centerline. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One is at the center, top of the crown, approximately one inch in front of the posterior fontanelle (soft spot). ❋ Unknown (2007)

She glanced down at the top of the baby's head, at the translucent pulse beneath his fontanelle. ❋ Picoult, Jodi, 1966- (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Quindlen, Anna (1998)

Lastly, to effect a cure for a sunken fontanelle, the healer attempts to raise it to its original position by holding the child upside down by its ankles and tapping the stoles of its feet or by pulling the infant's hair upward and pushing on the hard palate. ❋ Unknown (1985)

- Feel the child for skin elasticity, pulse rate and sunken fontanelle ❋ Unknown (1985)

The neighbourhood of certain joints where the pulse can be felt most readily, and the top of the head, where pulsation can be felt in the infant's fontanelle, were therefore regarded by some Asiatic peoples as the places where the substance of life could leave or enter the body. ❋ G. Elliot Smith (N/A)

Gradual closure of these openings in the bones occurs, until at the end of six or eight months, the posterior fontanelle is entirely closed; while eighteen months are required for the closure of the anterior fontanelle. ❋ William S. Sadler (N/A)

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: ❋ William S. Sadler (N/A)

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. ❋ William S. Sadler (N/A)