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Frontal bone   /frˈəntəl boʊn/   Listen
Frontal bone

noun
1.
The large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits.  Synonyms: forehead, os frontale.






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"Frontal bone" Quotes from Famous Books



... ready to bite or strike its foe; at others it writhes under a spear-thrust, or rolls over and over in its dying agonies. In one instance, an arrow has pierced the skull of a male lion, crashing through the frontal bone a little above the left eyebrow, and protrudes obliquely to the right between his teeth: under the shock of the blow he has risen on his hind legs, with contorted spine, and beats the air with his fore paws, his head thrown ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12) • G. Maspero



Words linked to "Frontal bone" :   brainpan, metopion, frontal eminence, membrane bone, mesophyron, os frontale, braincase, cranium, glabella, ophryon



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