frontal bone

1. 1.

   the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits

   Synonymsos frontaleforehead

   Broadermembrane bone

   Part ofcranium

   Partsglabellametopionophryonfrontal eminence

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.