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Articulations between cranial bones are?
sutures
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 the tiny bones found between the cranial bones called?
Sutural or Wormian bones.
What are the extra bones developing along the structures between the cranial bones?
Sutural bones or Wormian bones.
How many cranial bones do you have?
8 bones are cranial
Are cranial bones bones of the foot?
Cranial bones are bones of the head, tarsal bones are bones of the feet.
What are fibrous joints between cranial bones in adults?
suture
What is the area where two or more bones join together?
The immovable joints between the cranial bones are called sutures.
Where is the area where cranial bones join together?
Cranial bones join at sutures.
What structures allow the infant head to be compressed during birth and accommodate brain growth in the fetus and infant?
Fontanelles, or "soft spots". These are features of the infant skull that have soft gaps between the cranial bones. They allow for rapid stretching and deformation, since the brain expands faster than the surrounding bone can grow.
What is the space between the cranial bones of a newborn?
Fontanelles or Fontanel (soft spots)
What are two names for the small bones that are trapped within a suture?
Wormian or sutural bones are located in sutures between certain cranial bones.
