A bone forming the front of the upper part of the skull behind the forehead.
Large bone of the cranium that forms the forehead and superior portions of the orbits.
The bone forming the forehead and the upper parts of the orbits; it contains several air spaces. At birth it consists of right and left halves, joined by a suture that usually closes during infancy.
The bone which forms the forehead and protects the frontal lobes of the brain. In the substance of the bone is a cavity on each side (the frontal sinus) which communicates with the nose. Catarrh in these cavities produces the frontal headache characteristic of a ‘cold in the head’, and sometimes infection known as sinusitis develops.