fontanel

fontanel or fon·ta·nelle [fon-tn-el] ExamplesWord Origin noun Anatomy.

1. one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.

Origin of fontanel 1375–1425; late Middle English fontinel Middle French fontanele little spring, diminutive of fontaine fountain Examples from the Web for fontanel Historical Examples of fontanel

Leaving Father Fontanel on the veranda, she joined the American.

She Buildeth Her House

Will Comfort

Father Fontanel was found early, where the suffering was greatest in the city.

She Buildeth Her House

Will Comfort

Stuttgart was the fontanel, as it were, for the German muse.

The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

But you gave the lion’s share of the dances to Captain Fontanel.

A Book of Ghosts

Sabine Baring-Gould

Father Fontanel stared at him with the most pitiful eyes ever seen in child or woman.

She Buildeth Her House

Will Comfort

fontanel in Medicine fontanel n.

1. Any of the soft membranous gaps between the incompletely formed cranial bones of a fetus or infant.soft spot