frontal bone
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- noun
- /ˈfrʌntəl boʊn/
- Specialized
:
hueso frontal
- During the surgery, they had to reconstruct the frontal bone after the accident.
- histiocytosis of the frontal bone
Examples
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The doctor pointed out the fracture on the frontal bone during the examination.
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Intraoperative view of the frontal bone
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If the radix is thin, there is no need to carry this cut to the thick nasal process of the frontal bone.
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The lesion measured 8.0 cm x 5.0 cm, and the frontal bone was exposed.
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Unifocal Langerhans' cell histiocytosis of the frontal bone is rare.
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Figure 3. Operative photograph shows the lytic lesion in the frontal bone.
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On examination, the lesion was ulcerated and firmly adherent to the frontal bone.
Academic text (2015) -
Partial multiphase skeletal scintigraphy shows increased bone metabolism in the area of the right frontal bone.
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We also review previously reported cases of solitary eosinophilic granuloma of the frontal bone, and we discuss its clinical, radiologic, and histopathologic features.
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We report a most unusual case of Langerhans' cell histiocytosis of the frontal bone in a patient who had been affected by frontal sinus agenesis.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
A large bone at the front of the skull that forms the forehead and upper eye sockets
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the large bone forming the front part of the skull' is directly derivable from combining 'frontal' (pertaining to the front/forehead) with 'bone' (skeletal tissue). This is a regular noun-modifier compound following standard English morphology and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Frontal bone The name frontal bone comes from the word frontal, which means 'front' or 'forehead'. So it is the bone that forms the front of the skull, including the forehead and the upper part of the eye sockets, and the name explains its meaning.