fontanelle

English

Diagram of the top view of a baby's head, showing the fontanelle in the center.

Alternative forms

• fontanel

Etymology

Borrowing from French fontanelle, from Old French fontenelle.

Noun

fontanelle (plural fontanelles)

1. (anatomy) A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.

Synonyms

• soft spot

Translations

soft spot on a baby's head

• Arabic: يَأْفُوخ‎ m (yaʾfūḵ)

  Egyptian Arabic: يافوخ‎ m (yāfūḵ)

• Breton: feunteunig (br) f
• Bulgarian: фонтане́ла f (fontanéla)
• Catalan: fontanel·la f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 囟門 (zh), 囟门 (zh) (xìnmén), 囟腦門兒 (zh), 囟脑门儿 (zh) (xìnnǎoménr)

• Czech: fontanela f
• Finnish: aukile (fi)
• French: fontanelle (fr) f
• Georgian: ყიფლიანდი (q̇ipliandi), ყიფლიბანდი (q̇iplibandi)
• German: Fontanelle (de) f
• Icelandic: hausamót n pl
• Ido: fontanelo (io)
• Ilocano: lulonan

• Irish: cró an chinn m, cró na baithise m
• Italian: fontanella
• Japanese: 泉門 (せんもん, senmon), 顋門 (ひよめき, hiyomeki)
• Korean: 숨구멍 (sumgumeong), 정문 (ko) (jeongmun)
• Malay: fontanel
• Maori: wāhi tāmomo, pūmotomoto
• Persian: ملاج‎ (fa) (malâj)
• Polish: ciemiączko n
• Portuguese: fontanela f, moleira (pt) f
• Russian: родничо́к (ru) m (rodničók), те́мечко (ru) n (témečko)
• Spanish: fontanela f, mollera f
• Tagalog: bumbunan
• Ukrainian: джере́льце n (džerélʹce), ті́м'ячко n (tímʺjačko)
• Vietnamese: thóp (vi)

Further reading

• fontanelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Old French fontenelle.

Noun

fontanelle f (plural fontanelles)

1. fontanelle

Further reading

• “fontanelle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Noun

fontanelle f

1. plural of fontanella