os frontale

Questions about os frontale

What does os frontale mean?

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

What is another word for os frontale?

Close synonyms include frontal bone, 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 os frontale a common word?

os frontale 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.