Frontal bone

Frontal bone
The large bone that makes up the forehead and supplies the upper edge and roof of the orbit (eye socket). The frontal bone articulates (comes together) with a number of other bones including the parietal, nasal, ethmoid, maxillary, and zygomatic bones.

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frontal bone n a bone that forms the forehead and roofs over most of the orbits and nasal cavity and that at birth consists of two halves separated by a suture also either of the two halves esp. in a vertebrate in which they do not unite to form a single bone

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the bone forming the forehead and the upper parts of the orbits; it contains several air spaces (frontal sinuses: see paranasal sinuses). At birth it consists of right and left halves, joined by a suture that usually closes during infancy. See skull.

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os frontale.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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