Lambdoid synostosis is a rare type of craniosynostosis that involves the lambdoid suture, which runs along the back of the head. This head shape is also called trigonocephaly. Premature fusion gives the forehead a triangular appearance and widens the back part of the head. The metopic suture runs from the top of the bridge of the nose up through the midline of the forehead to the anterior fontanel and the sagittal suture. When both coronal sutures fuse prematurely (bicoronal), the head has a short and wide appearance, often with the forehead tilted forward. It also leads to turning of the nose and a raised eye socket on the affected side. Premature fusion of one of the coronal sutures (unicoronal) that run from each ear to the top of the skull may cause the forehead to flatten on the affected side and bulge on the unaffected side. Sagittal craniosynostosis is the most common type of craniosynostosis. Premature fusion of the sagittal suture that runs from the front to the back at the top of the skull forces the head to grow long and narrow. The term given to each type of craniosynostosis depends on what sutures are affected. Multiple suture craniosynostosis is usually linked to genetic syndromes and is called syndromic craniosynostosis. Some complex forms of craniosynostosis involve the fusion of multiple sutures. Most involve the fusion of a single cranial suture. There are several types of craniosynostosis. Development of a raised, hard ridge along affected sutures, with a change in the shape of the head that's not typical.A misshapen skull, with the shape depending on which of the sutures are affected.Signs and severity depend on how many sutures are fused and when in brain development the fusion occurs. The signs of craniosynostosis are usually noticeable at birth, but they become more apparent during the first few months of your baby's life. Early diagnosis and treatment allow your baby's brain adequate space to grow and develop.Īlthough neurological damage can occur in severe cases, most children develop as expected in their ability to think and reason (cognitive development) and have good cosmetic results after surgery. Treating craniosynostosis involves surgery to correct the shape of the head and allow for brain growth. In rare cases, craniosynostosis is caused by certain genetic syndromes (syndromic craniosynostosis). Each side of the skull has a tiny fontanel.Ĭraniosynostosis usually involves premature fusion of a single cranial suture, but it can involve more than one of the sutures in a baby's skull (multiple suture craniosynostosis). The next largest fontanel is at the back (posterior). The anterior fontanel is the soft spot felt just behind a baby's forehead. In the front of the skull, the sutures meet in the large soft spot (fontanel) on top of the head. Sarah Escue’s poems are a flame on the tongue, a hymn to unity.Usually, during infancy the sutures remain flexible, allowing a baby's skull to expand as the brain grows. Robert Eric Shoemaker Through permutations of the elements into language, the generation of sentience submerged into matter, and the alchemy of decay, the incantatory lyrics of Bruised Gospel find "rebirth through refuge," taking up "again this body / occupied by many mouths," becoming "glass shattered," or dissolving, however transiently, ‘into this tilted hour.’ - Jonathan Simkins If, in this unfolding new year, I can find the faith to pray again, it will be a bruised prayer, and if I find the voice to share the good news, it will be a bruised gospel. Like stardust in the alpine dew, Bruised Gospel proclaims the reworking of potential into energy, picking up dead lines and branches to weave a wreath, a collage, a photograph, a poem. Escue writes the image at the edge: of birth and death, plain and forest, water and shore. Emma Bolden Bruised Gospel takes notes from Sylvia Plath, weaving baskets out of broken thatch, making a toy out of a misshapen chair, reclaiming identity through deconstruction. Like Louise Glück’s work, these delicate yet deliberate poems transform image into meaning, recording the moment of realization and leaving the reader more fully alive. Escue bridges the tender and the terrible, exploring and examining the sadnesses and slow glories that bind us together.
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