Word: fontanel
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Last winter, after twelve barren years, frail Mrs. Howard Albert Jackson of Manhattan bore her proud husband a baby girl. For two months the joyous Jacksons showed off little Alice to their admiring friends. Then suddenly they noticed that her head was swelling like a little balloon. The tender fontanel at the top of her head was tense and bulging, and thick blue veins stood out like cords underneath her downy hair. The doctor shook his head, told them that the baby had hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and, like 2,000 other hydrocephalic children born...
Intelligence. Three days after her operation, little Alice was sucking lustily at her bottle. Her fontanel began to sink. Last week, when Dr. Scarff gave Alice a checkup, he found that her head had decreased a quarter of an inch in circumference, while her body had nearly doubled in size. She gurgled, tried to sit up alone and reach for his finger. "We're simply crazy about her now," cried beaming Mr. Jackson...
...always bounces out of the wings, a square, bullet-headed man, smooth shaven except for a tiny marceled patch where his fontanel was 30 years ago. He brandishes his trumpet. He gives a roguish grin. His eyes roll around in his head like white, three-penny marbles...
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