Definition of Frontal eminence

1. Noun. Either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit.


Medical Definition of Frontal eminence

1. The most prominent portion of the frontal bone on either side. Synonym: tuber frontale, eminentia frontalis, frontal tuber. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frontal Eminence

frontager
frontagers
frontages
frontal
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 (current term)
frontal fontanel
frontal foramen
frontal grooves
frontal gyrus
frontal horn
frontal lobe
frontal lobe epilepsy
frontal lobe of cerebrum
frontal lobes
frontal lobotomy
frontal margin
frontal nerve
frontal notch
frontal part of corpus callosum

Literary usage of Frontal eminence

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)
"On either side of this ridge, a little below the centre of the bone, is a rounded eminence, the frontal eminence. These eminences vary in size in different ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"On either side of this ridge, a little below the centre of the bone, is a rounded eminence, the frontal eminence. These eminences vary in size in different ..."

3. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1879)
"Transitory pain in tlie left frontal eminence, as if a nail were driven in it. This pain disappeared at once on touching the part, returned, however, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"(31) Time, below the frontal eminence and a little in front of the temporal crest (30) Eventuality (. ..."

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