fontanelle
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French fontanelle, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French fontenelle.
Noun
fontanelle (plural fontanelles)
- (anatomy) A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.
Synonyms
Translations
soft spot on a baby's head
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Further reading
fontanelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French fontenelle.
Noun
fontanelle f (plural fontanelles)
Further reading
- “fontanelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
fontanelle f
- plural of fontanella
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