Sentences with phrase «soft skull bones»

A baby's soft skull bones and developing neck and trunk muscles don't know or care if baby is awake or asleep.

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

The reason that the bones remain unfused is to allow for enough overlapping movement to enable the soft, pliable, and slightly separated skull to pass as unencumbered as possible through the birth canal while still providing the ample protection it needs.

The soft spots — fontanelles — are the spots on a newborn's head where the skull bones aren't firmly joined together.

The spaces between the skull bones are the «fontanelles» or «soft spots.»

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

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So Baud's team aimed for a soft spot: the anterior fontanelle, a membrane - covered gap between the bones of an infant's skull, which hardens as the bones fuse around age 2.

It's true that young infants are more likely to experience a skull fracture, because their bones are softer.

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

Fischetti A, Gisselman K, Peterson ME: CT and MRI evaluation of skull bones and soft tissues in six cats with presumed acromegaly versus 12 unaffected catsVeterinary Radiology & Ultrasound 2012; 53:535 - 539.

In fact, soft spots on the heads of toy and teacup varieties of dogs are common, as cranial bone development often terminates before the fontanelles within the skull are closed.

More advanced tests include survey radiographs (X-rays) of the skull, to look for asymmetrical destruction of the nasal bones (nasal turbinates), facial bones and / or for soft tissues masses.

The skull of a hydrocephalic kitten is larger than normal and the soft spots where the bones of the skull come together are more open.

The brain is enclosed within hard skull bones, which generally offers protection to the soft brain inside.

The top end of the column through which your air flows extends up into your head, behind your tongue, into your soft palate and the arch formed by the bones of your skull, behind the hard palate.

Even small bangs on the head can cause large bruises and large soft swellings because the scalp has a very good blood supply and the bone of the skull is just under the skin (no «padding» to absorb the knock).