os frontale

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Noun

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os frontale - the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbitsfrontal bone, foreheadglabella, 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 ridgesmetopion - the craniometric point midway between the frontal eminences of the skullophryon - the craniometric point in the midline of the forehead immediately above the orbitsmembrane bone - any bone that develops within membranous tissue without previous cartilage formation; e.g. the clavicle and bones of the skullbraincase, brainpan, cranium - the part of the skull that encloses the brainfrontal eminence - either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit