English
Diagram of the top view of a baby's head, showing the fontanelle in the center.
Alternative forms
Noun
fontanelle (plural fontanelles)
- (anatomy) A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.
Synonyms
Translations
soft spot on a baby's head
- Arabic: يَأْفُوخ m (yaʾfūḵ)
- Egyptian Arabic: يافوخ m (yāfūḵ)
- Breton: feunteunig (br) f
- Bulgarian: фонтане́ла f (fontanéla)
- Catalan: fontanel·la f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 囟門 (zh), 囟门 (zh) (xìnmén), 囟腦門兒 (zh), 囟脑门儿 (zh) (xìnnǎoménr)
- Czech: fontanela f
- Finnish: aukile (fi)
- French: fontanelle (fr) f
- Georgian: ყიფლიანდი (q̇ipliandi), ყიფლიბანდი (q̇iplibandi)
- German: Fontanelle (de) f
- Icelandic: hausamót n pl
- Ido: fontanelo (io)
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- Ilocano: lulonan
- Irish: cró an chinn m, cró na baithise m
- Italian: fontanella
- Japanese: 泉門 (せんもん, senmon), 顋門 (ひよめき, hiyomeki)
- Korean: 숨구멍 (sumgumeong), 정문 (ko) (jeongmun)
- Malay: fontanel
- Maori: wāhi tāmomo, pūmotomoto
- Persian: ملاج (fa) (malâj)
- Polish: ciemiączko n
- Portuguese: fontanela f, moleira (pt) f
- Russian: родничо́к (ru) m (rodničók), те́мечко (ru) n (témečko)
- Spanish: fontanela f, mollera f
- Tagalog: bumbunan
- Ukrainian: джере́льце n (džerélʹce), ті́м'ячко n (tímʺjačko)
- Vietnamese: thóp (vi)
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