Fontanelle Definition

Fontanelle is widely preferred in the working medical parlance.

Fontanelle definition. A fontanelle or fontanel colloquially soft spot is an anatomical feature of the infant human skull comprising any of the soft membranous gaps between the cranial bones that make up the calvaria of a fetus or an infant. A gap between the bones of the skull of a young animal. Any of the spaces closed by membranous structures between the uncompleted angles of the parietal bones and the neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull.

Fonticulus is the accepted terminologia anatomica name. Fontanel definition is a membrane covered opening in bone or between bones.