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The point on the skull corresponding to the junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures.

Point of union of sagittal and coronal sutures; the anterior fontanel.

That part of the skull where frontals and parietals meet.

The top of the head was thus called, because it was believed to be humid in infants; and, according to some, because it was conceived to correspond to the most humid part of the brain.

Junction of coronal and sagittal sutures.

The upper and fore part of the head; more exactly, the point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures, corresponding to the anterior fontanel in infants. See occiput. [Gr.]