Bregma

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Bregma
Side view of head, showing surface relations of bones. (Bregma labeled at center top.)
Gray's subject #32 135
Dorlands/Elsevier b_22/12196413

The frontal angle is practically a right angle, and corresponds with the point of meeting of the sagittal and coronal sutures; this point is named the bregma. The bregma is known as the anterior fontanelle during infancy. The anterior fontanelle is membranous, and closes within 4-26 months of life.

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