单词 | fontanel |
释义 | fontanel (once / 94555 pages) n WORD FAMILY fontanel: fontanels USAGE EXAMPLESThe Devonian fish, the juxtaposed thumb, the fontanel, technology—clicks clicks, clicks clicks.. John Gardner, Grendel(1971) I was gobsmacked by my babies: their meaty beauty and smell, the doughy smoothness of their skin, the pulsing crater of fontanel. New York Times(Apr 16, 2015) I said, “May, did you ever know a Deborah? Deborah Fontanel? A white woman from Virginia? It would have been a long time ago.” Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees(2002) n any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus Syn|Hypo|Hyper fontanelle, soft spot anterior fontanelle corresponds to the bregma when bones have ossified sphenoid fontanel, sphenoid fontanelle, sphenoidal fontanel, sphenoidal fontanellethe irregularly shaped area on either side of the cranium where the frontal bone and the anterior tip of the parietal bone and the temporal bone and the greater wing of the sphenoid bone meet; corresponds to the pterion when bones have ossified opening, orifice, porta an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity |
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