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frontal bone
noun
Definition of FRONTAL BONE
: a bone that forms the forehead and roofs over most of the orbits and nasal cavity and that at birth consists of two halves separated by a suture
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First Known Use of FRONTAL BONE
1741
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Medical Dictionary
frontal bone
noun
Medical Definition of FRONTAL BONE
: a bone that forms the forehead and roofs over most of the orbits and nasal cavity and that at birth consists of two halves separated by a suture; also : either of the two halves especially in a vertebrate in which they do not unite to form a single bone
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