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fontanella

fontanella [OF fontanelle] , (anat.) fontanelle, hollow between two muscles: a (at back of neck); b (elsewhere). a cauteria maniacis fiant in fontinella colli vel capitis ad nodulum inter fantasticam et logisticam cellulam Gilb. II 106. 1; fontinella Ib. III 133. 1 (v. 1 fons 5a); retro in capite sunt ‥ fontinella et duo cornua [gl.: fontinnella est concavitas colli inter duos tumores qui dicentur cornua] Garl. Dict. 121; cauterizatio in pupi capitis, sc. in ~a colli Gad. 120v. 1; fentinella, A. the nekke putte ‥ hec frontinella, the pyte in the neke ‥ hec fontinella, A. the nek hole WW; an hole in the nek, frontinella CathA.  b in fontinella duobus digitis super unum incidetur Gilb. VII 309. 2; cauterium in ~a geniculi vel in poplite Gad. 127v. 1.

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