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Definition of Frontal

1. Noun. An adornment worn on the forehead.

2. Adjective. Belonging to the front part. "A frontal appendage"

3. Noun. A drapery that covers the front of an altar.

4. Adjective. Of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air. "Frontal rainfall"

5. Noun. The face or front of a building.

6. Adjective. Meeting front to front. "A head-on collision"

7. Adjective. Of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone. "The frontal lobes"

Definition of Frontal

1. a. Belonging to the front part; being in front

2. n. Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet

Definition of Frontal

1. Adjective. Of, relating to, directed toward, or situated at the front: ''a frontal attack.'' ¹

2. Adjective. ''Anatomy'' ¹

3. Adjective. Of or relating to a weather front. ¹

4. Noun. A drapery covering the front of an altar. ¹

5. Noun. The façade of a building. ¹

6. Noun. (skeleton) The bone at the front of the skull, behind the forehead. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frontal

1. a bone of the skull [n -S]

Medical Definition of Frontal

1. Belonging to the front part; being in front; especially. . Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones. Origin: Cf. F. Frontal. 1. Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet; as: An ornamental band for the hair. The metal face guard of a soldier. 2. A little pediment over a door or window. 3. A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies. 4. A medicament or application for the forehead. 5. The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium. Frontal hammer or helve, a forge hammer lifted by a cam, acting upon a "tongue" immediately in front of the hammer head. Origin: F. Frontal, fronteau, OF. Frontel, frontal, L. Frontale an ornament for the forehead, frontlet. See Front. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frontal

front slash front teeth front tooth front vowel front wall front walls front yard front yards frontad frontage

frontage road frontage roads frontager frontagers frontages frontal (current term) frontal angle of parietal bone frontal area frontal artery frontal belly of occipitofrontalis muscle

frontal bone frontal border frontal border of parietal bone frontal border of sphenoid bone frontal branch of superficial temporal artery frontal cortex frontal crest frontal eminence frontal fontanel frontal foramen

Literary usage of Frontal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The anterior border, deeply serrated, is bevelled at the expense of the outer surface above and of the inner below ; it articulates with the frontal bone, ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The frontal lobes are now closely approximated in front of the inter-brain, while there is also to be noted the formation of the optic thalami, ..."

3. The Lancet (1898)
"Should such an anatomical condition be present it is easy to see how pus secreted from the mucous membrane lining the frontal sinus wonld first of all flow ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1902)
"Psychical Troubles and frontal Lobe Tumors.—Miiller discusses particularly the case reported by Welt, which is supposed to indicate that disturbances of ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"These growths were removed, and dead bone was curetted from the ethmoidal, sphenoidal, and frontal sinuses. Anaesthesia of the right side of the jaw, ..."

6. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"evolutions and furrows on the frontal surface.—The convolu- of the frontal lobe on the frontal surface, are four in number, three >-posterior, one above the ..."

7. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"The parietal articulates with the occipital, frontal, sphenoid, ... THE frontal The frontal bone [os frontale] closes the cranium in front and is situated ..."

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