Sentence examples for fontanelle from inspiring English sources

The frontal gland of some termites (e.g., Coptotermes and Rhinotermes) occupies a large portion of the abdominal cavity and opens by means of a frontal pore (fontanelle), through which the liquid is ejected.

But I was thrilled to find that the city also provides courtesy beverages (with unlimited refills) from its ubiquitous old fontanelle, or water fountains, which pretty much all reports conclude are cool, delicious and safe to drink.

In humans, the anterior fontanelle remains open for the first few years of life, allowing for the massive increase in brain size, which occurs largely during early life.

Comparison of this more recent reconstruction with scans of other species now reveal that the skull of Taung Child has a small, triangle-shaped remnant of the anterior fontanelle.

In chimpanzees and bononbos, by contrast, brain growth occurs mostly in the womb, and the anterior fontanelle is closed at around the time of birth.

The anterior fontanelle enables the two frontal bones of the skull to slide past each other, much like the tectonic plates that make up the Earth's crust.

Vitamin A toxicity in young infants may be seen in a swelling of the fontanelles (soft spots) due to increased intracranial pressure.

Mr. Paterson's poem is a 21st-century ode to regeneration (fontanelles are those soft spots on a baby's head where the skull hasn't fully fused yet), but it's also about the deep satisfactions of disappearing.

Luing, Mr. Paterson writes, is a place where a visitor might be "reborn into a secret candidacy" and where "the fontanelles reopen one by one".

Here, beside the fordable Atlantic, reborn into a secret candidacy, the fontanelles reopen one by one in the palms, then the breastbone and the brow, aching at the shearwater's wail, the rowan that falls beyond all seasons.

I can't verify that any fontanelles reopened (that would have been distressing, anyway), but I lost track of time and let myself disappear for a while.