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Noun: sphenoid fontanel
  1. The 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
    - sphenoid fontanelle, sphenoidal fontanelle, sphenoidal fontanel

Derived forms: sphenoid fontanels

Type of: fontanel, fontanelle, soft spot

Nearest

sphenion
Spheniscidae
sphenisciform seabird
Sphenisciformes
Spheniscus
Spheniscus demersus
Sphenodon
Sphenodon punctatum
sphenoid
sphenoid bone
sphenoid fontanel
sphenoid fontanelle
sphenoidal
sphenoidal fontanel
sphenoidal fontanelle
Sphenopsida
spheral
sphere
sphere of influence
spheric
spherical