Chapter 8, Problem 1CSL

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The cause of misshapen skull in Paul’s newborn daughter and the features that allow the neonatal skull to return back to its original shape.

Concept introduction:

Fontanelles are soft spots in the skull of a human infant. Fontanelles comprise of soft membranous sutures between the cranial bones as the bones are not fused at the time of birth. Dense regular connective tissues in that connect the cranial bones in an infant skull are referred as fontanelles.