NOUN
- the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits
How To Use frontal bone In A Sentence
- They brandished frontal bones, the dismembered quarters of kids and goats; they struck the bronze cantharus, they tossed the silver obba up aloft. Widdershins
- These typical lesions of the frontal bone with associated obesity and virilism were first described by Morgagni.
- His scalp was shaved, the coagula and debris removed, and among other portions of bone was a piece of the anterior superior angle of each parietal bone and a semicircular piece of the frontal bone, leaving an opening 3 1/2 inches in diameter. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- A thin splint from their frontal bones projects down and forward, finger-like, among the snout bones. Archive 2006-05-01
- Widely used in load-bearing bone substitute, prosthesis spine, chest, frontal bone defect repair and restoration.
- Beside him was another, smaller skeleton, preliminarily identified as a female of about seven years, for the metopic suture along the frontal bone of her skull had not yet fully disappeared. The Killing Kind
- The point corresponding with the posterior end of the sphenoparietal suture is named the pterion; it is situated about 3 cm. behind, and a little above the level of the zygomatic process of the frontal bone. II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull
- This sample is composed of immature infants (one to three years old), children (three to 12 years old; figure 1 shows the frontal bone of a child with the sutura frontalis unfused, which is usually fused before it becomes eight years of age), young adults (20 to 35 years old), and middle-aged adults (35 to 50 years old). Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Biological Anthropology Report 1
- In ostriches the alar bone integrated with the elements of the prefrontal bones.
- A most remarkable peculiarity is at once obvious in the extraordinary development of the frontal sinuses, owing to which the superciliary ridges, which coalesce completely in the middle, are rendered so prominent, that the frontal bone exhibits a considerable hollow or depression above, or rather behind them, whilst a deep depression is also formed in the situation of the root of the nose. Essays