The mastoid fontanelle is one of two areas of an infant’s head where the skull bones have not completely covered the brain. It is also known as one of the soft spots. There is one mastoid fontanelle on each side of the head, just beneath the parietal bone and between the front of the occipital bone and the lower rear edge of the temporal bone. The mastoid fontanelle has usually disappeared (because Continue Scrolling To Read More Below...
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Mastoid Fontanelle
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- Anterior Fontanelle
- Coronal Suture
- Coronoid Process
- Ethmoid Bone
- External Acoustic Meatus
- External Occipital Protuberance
- Fossa of Lacrimal Sac
- Frontal Bone
- Glabella
- Groove for Middle Temporal Artery
- Head of Condylar Process
- Inferior Temporal Line
- Infraorbital Foramen
- Lacrimal Bone
- Lambdoid Suture
- Mandible
- Mastoid Fontanelle
- Mastoid Process
- Maxilla
- Mental Foramen
- Nasal Bone
- Newborn Skull
- Oblique Line
- Occipital Bone
- Parietal Bone
- Posterior Fontanelle
- Sphenoid Bone
- Sphenoidal Fontanelle
- Superior Temporal Line
- Supraorbital Notch
- Teeth
- Temporal Bone
- Temporal Styloid Process
- Zygomatic Bone
- Zygomaticofacial Foramen
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