NOUN | a frontal bone | frontal bones | |
SYNO | forehead | frontal bone | os frontale |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- In addition, Cro-Magnon 1 suffered from a genetic condition called Neurofibromatosis type I, which would have led him to have large cysts or tumours on his face, evident in the depression in the frontal bone and pits of the eyebrows and cheek bones.
- In some animals, such as horned ungulates (mammals with hooves), the skull also has a defensive function by providing the mount (on the frontal bone) for the horns.
- is the most anterior point of the frontonasal suture that joins the nasal part of the frontal bone and the nasal bones.
- It is received into the ethmoidal notch of the frontal bone and roofs in the nasal cavities.
- The most effective headbutts strike the most sensitive areas of an opponent, such as the nose, using the stronger bones in the forehead (frontal bone) or the back of the skull (occipital or parietal bone).
- "Carnotaurus" is the only known carnivorous bipedal animal with a pair of horns on the frontal bone.
- The prefrontal bone is situated, on each side, between the frontal bone and the maxilla, and may or may not be in contact with the nasal bone.
- The longitudinal fissure can serve as an effective surgical passage in the frontal bone during central and pterional craniotomies, which is opening into the skull by surgery.
- A carrying cord emerges through a hole in the frontal bone.
- The superior oblique arises immediately above the margin of the optic foramen, superior and medial to the origin of the superior rectus, and, passing forward, ends in a rounded tendon, which plays in a fibrocartilaginous ring or pulley attached to the trochlear fossa of the frontal bone.
- The skull is entirely typical of the genus, having a very high sagittal crest, a shortened facial region and an inflated frontal bone.
- The roof (superior wall) is formed primarily by the orbital plate frontal bone, and also the lesser wing of sphenoid near the apex of the orbit.
- The zygomatic bone articulates with the frontal bone, sphenoid bone, and paired temporal bones, and maxillary bones.
- The supraorbital bar is the rim just above the eye socket; as discussed under phenotype, the supraorbital and the frontal bone are typically recessed at the ipsilateral side of the head.
- This assignment was based upon characteristics including the low and narrow skull with a short and narrow postorbital region; the long nasal bone relative to the frontal bone; the reduced backward projection of the jugal; the presence of more than seven neck vertebrae, with centra (bodies) longer than those of the trunk vertebrae; the low neural spines of the neck vertebrae; the long neck ribs; the lack of intercentra articulating with the centra of the trunk vertebrae; and the absence of an entepicondylar foramen on the humerus.
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