While 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 the
A)sphenoidal fontanel.
B)anterior fontanel.
C)occipital fontanel.
D)mastoid fontanel.
E)cushion spot.

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The correct term for the "soft spot" located at the intersection of the frontal, sagittal and coronal sutures is the anterior fontanel. The sphenoidal fontanel is a smaller fontanel located at the intersection of the greater and lesser wings of the sphenoid bone. The occipital fontanel is located at the posterior end of the sagittal suture, while the mastoid fontanel is located at the intersection of the lambdoid and occipitomastoid sutures. "Cushion spot" is not a recognized medical term.

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