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fonticuli cranii

[TA] fontanelles: the membrane-covered spaces, or soft spots, remaining at the incomplete angles of the parietal and adjacent bones, until ossification of the skull is completed. Popularly called soft spots.

Neonatal skull showing the four fonticuli cranii (cranial fontanelles): the anterior, mastoid, posterior, and sphenoidal.

Medical dictionary. 2011.