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Answer : FONTANELLE

noun

A space between the bones of the skull in an infant or fetus, where ossification is not complete and the sutures not fully formed. The main one is between the frontal and parietal bones.

SYNONYM

soft spot

EXAMPLES:

‘The sutures are, in effect, grooves between the bones of the skull and the fontanelles are small areas where the sutures meet.’

‘This cup placement maintains flexion of the fetal head and avoids traction over the anterior fontanelle.’

‘The lateral vacuities are referred to as the vestibular fontanelles and may be the homologues of the middle ear.’

‘The vestibular fontanelle was reorganized as a space that would eventually become the inner ear.’

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