Adjective, derived from two Greek words, amphi, a fish, and bios, a beast.
There is often a fontanelle between the dentary and the posterior bones, while the angle is sometimes, as in the fowl, drawn out into a long curved process.
The anterior fontanelle is unpaired, and lies far forward near the anterior end of the long cartilaginous snout, the two larger posterior ones lie just in front of the supra-occipital and lead into the cranial cavity.
Its roof is imperfect, being pierced by three holes or =fontanelles=, one large anterior fontanelle (fig.
A and C, 6) roof over the posterior part of the great dorsal fontanelle and overlap the exoccipito-periotics.
And Monsieur and Madame Fontanelle looked on their daughter as they would have done on a son who had just been released from the hulks.
Firschein (1954) used the presence of the fontanelle to distinguish guttilatus from his petrophilus.
Cope (1879) distinguished Malachylodes from Syrrhophus on the basis of the presence of a frontoparietal fontanelle in the holotype of guttilatus.
The holotype is a juvenile female and as is the case in the juveniles of nearly all leptodactylids, a frontoparietal fontanelle is present.
It was cut with the Captain's own sword, and though there wasn't enough for the whole regiment, every one from Fontanelle had a bite, and Pierre and Pierrette each had a whole piece.
The next day Uncle Sam and Jim appeared in Fontanelle and told the story of the spies to the Doctor and Mademoiselle, and then they held a long private conference with Mother Meraut.
What we shall do when we get to Fontanelle I do not know, but we shall be no worse off than other refugees, and at any rate we shall not be under shell-fire every day.
It was not until they had made a complete tour of the village, pursued by the entire personnel of the "encircling movement" that they were at last turned into the Fontanelle road.
The people of Fontanelle were too astonished for words.
Furthermore, the fontanelle in question may alter its characteristic appearance in certain forms of sickness.
Cranium of new-born child seen from above, showing polyhedric contour due to nodules of ossification; fontanelle of the bregma; and suture dividing the two frontal bones.
The principal fontanelleis that of the bregma (at the juncture of the two frontal with the two parietal bones, quadrangular).
The bony dorsomedial part of the sphenethmoid diverges, forming the anterior border of the frontoparietal fontanelle (fpar.
The entire fontanelle is covered with a layer of dense connective tissue continuous with that in which marginal bones and cartilage of the sphenethmoid lie, and which is discrete from the lower dermal layer of the overlying skin.
At this time the anterior fontanelle can scarcely be reached, but the posterior one is easily to be reached, being in the open passage, on the left side.
The Mento Bregmatic, or from the chin to the anterior fontanelle at the top of the head, M, O, Fig.
Just back of the forehead is formed a diamond-shaped soft spot known as the anterior fontanelle which should measure a little more than one inch from side to side.
Gradual closure of these openings in the bones occurs, until at the end of six or eight months, the posterior fontanelle is entirely closed; while eighteen months are required for the closure of the anterior fontanelle.
The fontanelle is prominent and throbs forcibly in inflammation of the brain, is too large in rickets and hydrocephalus, bulges in the latter affection, and sometimes sinks in conditions with only slight debility.
The frontoparietal fontanelle is narrow anteriorly and wide posteriorly.
The sphenethmoid and frontoparietal form the anterior margin of the frontoparietal fontanelle; the fontanelle is narrow anteriorly and wider posteriorly (Fig.
The frontoparientals are sutured medially throughout their lengths; the frontoparietal fontanelle is absent.
A keyhole-shaped frontoparietal fontanelleis present; the fontanelle is narrow anteriorly and wide posteriorly.
Furthermore, examination of the skulls of elongata, nana, and werneri reveals that they are like misera and microcephala in the nature of the frontoparietal fontanelle and in having a greatly reduced quadratojugal.
Although all skulls examined belong to breeding adults, the extent of the ossification of the frontoparietals and the resulting shape of the frontoparietal fontanelle might be correlated with the age of the frog.
The frontoparietals are equally poorly ossified, and the frontoparietal fontanelleis extensive.
In the Hyla microcephala group the sphenethmoid is small and short, and a large frontoparietal fontanelle is present.
Fontanelle presented to the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris several yards of tapeworm passed from the urethra of a man of fifty-three.
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.
In some cases the sagittal suture is continued backwards through the occipital bone, dividing it into two equal portions, and thus making the posterior fontanelle four cornered, and not to be distinguished from the anterior.
He saw Mademoiselle Fontanelle and fell in love with her, and when told of what occurred, he merely said: "'Bah!
Sam and Lige, who were standing near, overheard a mover relating to their father the circumstances of a hideous murder of a party of emigrants which had occurred near Fontanelle but a few days before.
He said that Indians had set on an emigrant train near Fontanelle and murdered the whole party.
A large frontoparietal fontanelle is evident between the frontoparietals.
There is a tendency for obliteration of the fontanelle with increasing age in both S.
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