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What bone articulates with the inferior border of the zygomatic bone?
maxillary bone
What causes a sunken anterior fontanel?
Dehydration
Do your neck have bone?
Well, there is bone in the form of your spine in the back of your neck, but in the front there is cartilage.
Is a ligament the same as a joint?
No. A ligament is tissue that connects two bones that form a joint. Remember, a tendon connects muscle to bone while a ligament connects bone to bone.
What articulates with the temporal bone to form a freely movable joint?
mandible
Where is the anterior fontanel?
anterior fontanel is found between the frontal bone and two parietal bones
What is the large soft spot at the junction of the parietal bones and the frontal bone in the infant cranium is the?
Anterior fontanel
How many fontanels has a fetal skull?
Anterior (frontal) Fontanel Posterior (occipital) Fontanel Anterolateral (sphenoid) Fontanel Posterolateral (mastoid) Fontanel
What are the names of the fontanels in fetal skull?
Anterior (frontal) Fontanel Posterior (occipital) Fontanel Anterolateral (sphenoid) Fontanel Posterolateral (mastoid) Fontanel
Is the coronal fontanel medial to the posterior fontanel?
The posterior fontanel would be in the back of the head. The coronal fontanel would be located in another part of the brain.
What is fontanel fate?
Fontanel means "soft spot"; fate.
Soft spot on a babys head?
Its called a fontanel
What bone articulates with the inferior border of the zygomatic bone?
maxillary bone
What is a babys soft spot called?
two "spots" generally combine to make up the larger spot. they are the posterior fontanel and the anterior fontanel
What is the fate of a fontanel?
Fontanelle or Fontanel is the soft spot of an infant human skull between the cranial bones. The posterior fontanel closes on the first few months of life.
What are all the bones that fuse together besides the fontanel?
The fontanel fuses through a process of intramembranous ossification. Most of the other bones in the body undergo intracartilaginous ossification. There are many bones that do this, in particular, one of them is the coxal bone, also called the OS coxa, and it starts out as three separate bones; ilium, ischium, and pubis.
How do the skull joints change after birth?
They gradually fuse, so that eventually there is no anterior fontanel (or posterior fontanel) either.
