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Definition of Frontal eminence
1. Noun. Either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit.
Generic synonyms: Bulge, Bump, Excrescence, Extrusion, Gibbosity, Gibbousness, Hump, Jut, Prominence, Protrusion, Protuberance, Swelling
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
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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