Posterior fontanelle
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| Posterior fontanelle | |
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| Skull at birth, showing frontal and occipital fonticuli. | |
| Latin | f. posterior |
| Gray's | subject #47 196 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | f_12/12372487 |
The posterior fontanelle (or occipital fontanelle) is triangular in form and is situated at the junction of the sagittal suture and lambdoidal suture.
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cranial sutures: Coronal | Lambdoid | Occipitomastoid | Parietomastoid | Sphenofrontal | Sphenoparietal | Sphenosquamosal | Sphenozygomatic |Squamosal | Zygomaticotemporal | Zygomaticofrontal | Frontal/Metopic | Sagittal | Frontoethmoidal | Petrosquamous | Sphenoethmoidal | Sphenopetrosal fontanelles: Anterior fontanelle | Posterior fontanelle Asterion | Nasion | Pterion | Dacryon | Inferior orbital fissure | Foramen lacerum | Jugular foramen |
