Section 6-2

Question 1

Fonatanels

Answer 1

Open spaces on the baby’s head where the bones are not yet joined

Question 2

Lanugo

Answer 2

Fine, downy, hair growing on the baby’s forehead, back, and shoulders

Question 3

Vernix

Answer 3

Thick, white, pasty substance that is made up of the fetus’s shed skin cells and secretion of skin glands

Question 4

Apgar scale

Answer 4

A system of rating the physical conditions of a newborn baby. Rates the 5 following areas:
🔹heart rate
🔸breathing
🔹clear skin color
🔸muscle tone
🔹response to stimulation