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fontanelle, fontanel|fɒntəˈnɛl|
Forms: 6–8 fontenel(l(e, 6 fontynelle, 7 funtanel, 7–9 fontanel(l(e, fontinel(l(e.
[a. Fr. fontanelle (OF. fontanele, fontenele little fountain, also in the senses below), dim. of fontaine fountain n. Cf. It. fontanella little fountain, also hollow of the neck.]
1. Anat.
†a. The hollow between two muscles.
Mentioned as the appropriate place for the application of a seton or a cautery: cf. sense 2.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. iv. Pj, For that cause be the cetons & canteres [sic] done behinde the necke, and in the fontenelles of the lacertes where as one is deuyded from the other. Ibid. P ij, On the homoplate vnder the font[en]elles of the armes. Ibid., On the fontynelles vnder the knee.
b. One of several membranous spaces in the head of an infant which lie at the adjacent angles of the parietal bones. (Syd. Soc. Lex.) In some animals it is permanent.
1741Monro Anat. Bones (ed. 3) 71 That Part of the parietal and frontal Bones, where the Fontanelle is in Children. 1752Smellie Midwif. I. 292 No perceiveable pulsation at the Fontanelle. a1823M. Baillie Wks. (1825) I. 187, I opened the head at the anterior fontinel. 1872Mivart Elem. Anat. 127 The transitory fontanelle of man is permanent in some animals, as in Sharks. 1875Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 755/1 A large space (fontanelle) covered in by membrane, which lies in the interorbital region [of the frog].
†2. Med. An artificial ulcer or a natural issue for the discharge of humours from the body. Obs.
1612Woodall Surgeon's Mate Wks. (1639) 7 The cauterizing Irons..are good to make a funtanell or Issue in the hinder part of the head. 1676Phil. Trans. XI. 742 Fontinels or Issues naturally arising in the Arms and Feet. 1779Johnson Let. to Dr. Taylor 3 Aug., He has a fontanel in his back.
b. In extended sense: An outlet for the discharge of secretions, etc. Often with mixture of the etymological sense ‘fount’. Also transf. and fig.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. Disc. i. §9 Why hath nature given to Women two exuberant fontineles? 1650― Holy Living ii. §3 (1727) 75 The fontinel of whose desires hath been opened. 1660Waterhouse Arms & Arm. 126 Whose fontenel sends forth matter with words. 1701C. Wolley Jrnl. in New York (1860) 25 Nature..purgeth it by Fontanels and Issues of running waters in its irriguous Valleys. 1848R. E. Landor Fountain of Arethusa iii. ii. §1 Through this narrow fontanel of perforated rock. |