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Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
cranial suture +    
neurocranium +    
actinopterygian frontal-parietal joint 
antorbital cartilage 
basicranium +  
cartilaginous joint suture 
coronal suture 
endoskeletal cranial joint 
ethmoidomaxillary suture 
euryon 
exoccipital endochondral element +  
fontanelle +  
Anatomical structure that is a membranous gap between bones of the skull[TAO]. In humans: Fontanelles are soft spots on a baby's head which, during birth, enable the bony plates of the skull to flex, allowing the child's head to pass through the birth canal. The ossification of the bones of the skull cause the fontanelles to close over by a child's second birthday. The closures eventually form the sutures of the neurocranium. Although there are the two anterior and posterior fontanelles, there are two more fontanelles of interest, the mastoid fontanelle, and the sphenoidal fontanelle[WP].
frontal suture 
frontomaxillary suture 
intermaxillary suture 
lacrimomaxillary suture 
lambdoid suture 
lamina orbitonasalis +  
maxillary-premaxillary suture 
nasomaxillary suture 
neurocranium bone +  
occipitomastoid suture 
olfactory region +  
orbital cartilages 
otic region +  
parietomastoid suture 
pharyngeal apophysis 
rostral cartilage 
rostral process 
sagittal suture 
sphenofrontal suture 
sphenoid bone pre-cartilage condensation +  
sphenoid region +  
sphenomaxillary suture 
sphenoparietal suture 
sphenozygomatic suture 
squamoparietal suture 
subepiotic fossa 
suborbital shelf 
supraoccipital endochondral element +  
sutural bone 
suture of hard palate +  
tectum orbitale 
tectum synoticum +  
vault of skull +  
zygomaticomaxillary suture 

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: fontanel ;   fontanelles ;   fontanels
Related Synonyms: fonticuli cranii
Xrefs: FMA:75438 ;   MA:0001465 ;   NCI:C32621 ;   SCTID:272681004 ;   TAO:0001738 ;   UMLS:C0224548 ;   Wikipedia:Fontanelle ;   ZFA:0005536
see_also: https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/1795
Definition Sources: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2825-0621, Wikipedia:Fontanelle

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