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Definition of Lacrimal bone
1. Noun. Small fragile bone making up part of the front inner walls of each eye socket and providing room for the passage of the lacrimal ducts.
Definition of Lacrimal bone
1. Noun. (anatomy) The smallest and most fragile bone of the face situated near the eye. ¹
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Medical Definition of Lacrimal bone
1. An irregularly rectangular thin plate, forming part of the medial wall of the orbit behind the frontal process of the maxilla; it articulates with the inferior nasal concha, ethmoid, frontal, and maxillary bones. Synonym: os lacrimale, os unguis. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacrimal Bone
Literary usage of Lacrimal bone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"THE LACRIMAL The lacrimal bone [os lacrimale] (fig. ... The vessels of the lacrimal
bone are derived from the infra-orbital, dorsal nasal branch of the ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The lacrimal bone (Os Lacrimale). The lacrimal bone, the smallest and most fragile
bone of the face, is situated at the front part of the medial wall of the ..."
3. Anatomical terminology, with special reference to the (B N A) by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1907)
"... bone Lacrimal process Maxillary process Ethmoidal process lacrimal bone
Posterior lacrimal crest (OT lacri- mal crest) Lacrimal sulcus Lacrimal hamulus ..."
4. Annals of Ophthalmology (1917)
"Knowing that the lacrimal bone is posterior to and articulates with the ascending
... Once having broken through the lacrimal bone, it is an easy matter to ..."
5. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1888)
"The lacrimal bone articulates with the frontal, the ethmoid, ... The vertical
ridge which divides the outer surface of the lacrimal bone into an anterior ..."
6. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"The lacrimal bone, the smallest and most fragile bone of the face, is situated
at the front part of the medial wall of the orbit (Fig. 164). ..."
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