Crossword-Solution: FONTANELLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fontanelle | n. | Same as Fontanel, 2. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “FONTANELLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A soft area between the bones of the cranium in an infant | 1 answer |
| Soft spot for babies | 1 answer |
| soft spot | 16 answers |
| Opener | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZMECE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FONTANELLE (5)
Among the points which the author has noticed in his description are that the fontanelle was double its usual size; that the orbits were somewhat deformed; that the two halves of the lower jaw were already united; and that the ribs were short and badly formed.
The arrest of development seemed to be connected with hydrocephalus; although the head was no larger than that of a child of two, the anterior fontanelle was widely open, indicating that there was pressure within.
Fontanelle presented to the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris several yards of tapeworm passed from the urethra of a man of fifty-three.
But they tease him, and coax him, and can’t do without him, and feel all over his poor weak head until they get their fingers on the _fontanelle_, (the Professor will tell you what this means,—he says the one at the top of the head always remains open in poets,) until, by gentle pressure on that soft pulsating spot, they stupefy him to the point of acquiescence.
Hagadorn's own father--to hark no further than that for an instance!--who lived up there with the Lake Superior Indians, and worked in the copper mines, had welcomed a woman at his hut one bitter night, who was gone by morning, leaving wolf tracks on the snow! Yes, it was so, and John Fontanelle, the half-breed, could tell you about it any day--if he were alive.
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Appears in: New Yorker.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2021).