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FRONTAL BONE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

forehead; frontal bone; os frontale

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Nouns denoting body parts

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)

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