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frontal bones

frontal bones is the plural of frontal bone.

Meaning of frontal bone

Noun

frontal bone (plural frontal bones)

  1. The bone which forms the front part of the skull and the upper part of the eye sockets and nasal cavity.
    • The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  2. Either of the pair of bones from which the frontal bone is formed by fusion in infancy.

Questions about frontal bones

What is frontal bones the plural of?
Frontal bones is the plural of frontal bone.

Words near frontal bones in the dictionary

  1. frontages
  2. frontal
  3. frontal arteries
  4. frontal artery
  5. frontal bone
  6. frontal bones
  7. frontal collision
  8. frontal collisions
  9. frontal eminence
  10. frontal eminences
  11. frontal lobe

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