fontanels in a sentence
Examples
- In infants, the fontanels, or soft spots on the head where the skull bones have not yet fused, bulge when ICP gets too high.
- Other symptoms in these states include lethargy or extreme sleepiness, seizures, sunken fontanel ( soft spot ) in infants, fainting, and sunken eyes ."
- The painter nearly always wore a hat, and some suggest he did so to cover his deformed head and the soft spots, or fontanels, in the skull.
- In the front of your baby's skull, the sutures intersect in the large soft spot ( fontanel ) on the top of your baby's head.
- Reports about the Sahaja Yoga technique of Kundalini awakening state that the practice can result in a cool breeze felt on the fingertips as well as on the fontanel bone area.
- "Aspidoras " is easily distinguished from the other genera of the subfamily Corydoradinae by the presence of a supraoccipital fontanel; this character is an autapomorphy for the genus.
- Christmas celebrates a birth, so " Babies Celebrated " by Beatrice Fontanel and Claire d'Harcourt ( Abrams, $ 39.95 ) makes a particularly appropriate choice.
- Then, after the cervix had dilated and the crown of the baby's head was exposed, he would inject pure formaldehyde into the fetal brain through the fontanel, or soft spot.
- "Support and Seduction : A History of Corsets and Bras, " by Beatrice Fontanel ( Abrams; $ 39.95 ), is an illustrated history of this uplifting endeavor.
- The clang of a bicycle bell announced the arrival of Eduardo Fontanel, 52, who is known as El Gato, the cat, because of the meowing sounds he makes while he speaks.