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Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
abnormal anterior fontanelle morphology +   
abnormal coronal suture morphology +   
abnormal lambdoid suture morphology +   
abnormal mastoid fontanelle morphology 
abnormal metopic suture morphology +   
abnormal posterior fontanelle morphology +   
abnormal sagittal suture morphology +   
abnormal sphenoid fontanelle morphology 
abnormal sphenosquamosal suture morphology 
abnormal squamoparietal suture morphology 
cranial suture sclerosis +   
large fontanelles +   
small fontanelles  
wide cranial sutures +   
Wormian bones  
presence of small extra bone segments, usually of irregular shape and variable size, arising in fontanelles and/or adjacent to or along the cranial sutures, and formed from additional and separate centers of ossification of the cranium; in humans, Wormian bones are most frequently located in the lambdoid or coronal suture, and have been seen in the fontanelles, particularly the posterior fontanelle

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: extra bones within cranial sutures ;   intra sutural bones ;   intrasutural bones ;   islands of bone within cranial sutures or fontanelles
Broad Synonyms: accessory skull bones ;   supernumerary skull bones
Definition Sources: https://www.kenhub.com/en/library/anatomy/accessory-bones-of-the-skull, PMID:23959948

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