frontal bone

Questions about frontal bone

What does frontal bone mean?

frontal bone means "the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits".

What is another word for frontal bone?

Close synonyms include os frontale, forehead. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frontal bone a common word?

frontal bone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.