Babies born with craniosynostosis need surgery to allow their brain to grow properly. (babycenter.com)
This child, estimated to be 10 years old at the time of death, had a debilitating birth defect called craniosynostosis, in which joints in the skull fuse before the brain has finished growing. (discovermagazine.com)
This has led to the hypothesis that the condition may be due to insufficiency of the bone and / or craniosynostosis of the lambdoid (occipitoparietal) and cranial base sutures. (cavaliercampaign.com)