Anatomy & Physiology
Anatomy & Physiology
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9781259398629
Author: McKinley, Michael P., O'loughlin, Valerie Dean, Bidle, Theresa Stouter
Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Education,
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Chapter 8, Problem 4DYB
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Fontanelles are soft spots in the skull of a human infant. Fontanelles comprise of soft membranous sutures between the cranial bones as the bones are not fused at the time of birth. Dense regular connective tissues in that connect the cranial bones in an infant skull are referred as fontanelles.

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