FRONTAL BONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frontal bone mean? 

• FRONTAL BONE (noun)
  The noun FRONTAL BONE has 1 sense:

1. the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits

  Familiarity information: FRONTAL BONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRONTAL BONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

forehead; frontal bone; os frontale

Hypernyms ("frontal bone" is a kind of...):

membrane bone (any bone that develops within membranous tissue without previous cartilage formation; e.g. the clavicle and bones of the skull)

Meronyms (parts of "frontal bone"):

glabella; mesophyron (a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges)

metopion (the craniometric point midway between the frontal eminences of the skull)

ophryon (the craniometric point in the midline of the forehead immediately above the orbits)

frontal eminence (either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit)

Holonyms ("frontal bone" is a part of...):

braincase; brainpan; cranium (the part of the skull that encloses the brain)

 Context examples 

A condition of unknown etiology characterized by thickening of the inner table of the frontal bone of the skull.

(Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna, NCI Thesaurus)

There are two, large frontal sinuses in the frontal bone, which forms the lower part of the forehead and reaches over the eye sockets and eyebrows.

(Frontal sinus, NCI Dictionary)