| The lateral vacuities are referred to as the vestibular fontanelles and may be the homologues of the middle ear. |
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| Branches were coming down left, right and centre and my head has soft fontanelles. |
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| The sutures are, in effect, grooves between the bones of the skull and the fontanelles are small areas where the sutures meet. |
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| Term infants have well-formed skull bones separated by strips of connective tissue, sutures, and fontanelles. |
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| Parents may also notice bulging fontanelles on their baby's head. |
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| The tapering anterior end of the vomer enters between the premaxillae, forming a loose contact that results in slit-like fontanelles on either side. |
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| These lighter shells have large spaces called fontanelles between the shell bones. |
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| The shells of leatherback sea turtles are extremely light because they lack scutes and contain many fontanelles. |
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| If they are very small, fontanelles can correct as puppies grow, so that proper closure of the skull is achieved by around six months of age. |
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| Patients usually complain of headache, nausea, vomiting, lethargy, irritability and sometimes increasing head size with bulging fontanelles. |
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| Overdosage symptoms include tight, bandlike headache, bulging fontanelles, nose bleed, or chapped lips. |
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| Fontanelles normally close by about two years of age, while the sutures between the bones may persist into early adolescence. |
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