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Definition of Prefrontals
1. prefrontal [n] - See also: prefrontal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefrontals
Literary usage of Prefrontals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... the unusually long maxillae, and the prefrontals, distinct "lachrymal*
ossifications occur. ... prefrontals ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1847)
"The posterior part of the coalesced prefrontals (figs. ... When the prefrontals
extend backward: and beyond the cribriform plates, they form what is termed ..."
3. On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton by Richard Owen (1848)
"The posterior part of the coalesced prefrontals (figs. ... In the tapirs the
prefrontals expand above and overarch the olfactory capsules, but their upper ..."
4. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1847)
"The posterior part of the coalesced prefrontals (figs. ... In the tapirs the
prefrontals expand above and overarch the olfactory capsules, but their upper ..."
5. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"In the Cod the palatine arch is chiefly but not wholly suspended to the prefrontals.
The right prefrontal is the smallest in the unsymmetrical skulls of the ..."
6. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"In the Cod the palatine arch is chiefly bat not wholly suspended to the prefrontals.
The right prefrontal is the smallest in the unsymmetrical skulls of the ..."
7. The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution by Edward Drinker Cope (1886)
"... The prefrontals are subtriangular, and approach each other more or less in
the numerous species of North America and of the Regio ..."
8. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"1903.6.29.23) as collected in the Yaeyama Islands, the two outer prefrontals are
fused with the inner ones, and that Doctor Wall has since recorded another ..."
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