Definition for FONT'A-NEL

FONT'A-NEL, n. [from the Fr.]

  1. An issue for the discharge of humors from the body. Hall.
  2. A vacancy in the infant cranium, between the frontal and parietal bones, and also between the parietal and occipital, at the two extremities of the sagittal suture. Cyc. Parr.

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