Sentences with phrase «called fontanels»

The soft regions, called fontanels, exist where the skull bones meet.

Don't be afraid to gently wash the soft spots (called fontanels) on your baby's head.

Your baby's head has a soft spot (called fontanels) where the skull has not yet fully closed.

Also, he would feel soft spots on the head of baby, called fontanels, along with the head shape.

Newborns tend to be delicate with their umbilical cord stump still healing, their skin barrier still trying to adjust to their new environment, and the soft spots on their scalp (called fontanels).

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Your baby has soft spots between the unfused skull bones which are called «fontanels».

DR. STACEY MERLO: I think just like you said — like it sounds, you have your sort of hard cranial bones that you felt and they are hard calcified plates then the fontanels are smaller sort of indentations which are covered in more of a softer membranous covering called our meninges.

Babies have soft spots — also called «fontanels» — that are gaps between the infant's skull and bones, and these areas are especially delicate.

Tiny dogs including so - called «teacup» and «toy» breeds of Chihuahuas, Shih Tzus, and Pomeranians are more likely than others to have problems stemming from fontanels that don't close.

Congenital hydrocephalus is a birth defect most often associated with a dome - shaped skull (sometimes referred to as «water head» or «apple head»), a large fontanel («soft spot») on top of the skull, and eyes that appear to gaze downward (called the «setting sun sign»).