While you're visiting your friend who recently gave birth, she comments on her infant's soft spot. You think to yourself that the correct term for the "soft spot" located at the intersection of the frontal, sagittal, and coronal sutures is
A) sphenoidal fontanelle.
B) anterior fontanelle.
C) occipital fontanelle.
D) mastoid fontanelle.
E) cushion spot.

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The anterior fontanelle is the correct term for the "soft spot" located at the intersection of the frontal, sagittal, and coronal sutures. The sphenoidal fontanelle is located at the intersection of the frontal, sphenoid, temporal, and parietal bones, and the occipital fontanelle is located at the intersection of the lambdoid and sagittal sutures. The mastoid fontanelle and cushion spot are not anatomical terms.

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