DescriptionUnreviewed
The frontal bone is a bone in the human skull.
The bone consists of two portions.
These are the vertically oriented squamous part, and the horizontally oriented orbital part, making up the bony part of the forehead, part of the bony orbital cavity holding the eye, and part of the bony part of the nose respectively.
The name comes from the Latin word frons (meaning "forehead").
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Muscle attachments
Muscles that arise here
Parts
Landmarks
- (Supra-orbital notch)
- (Trochlear spine)
- Ethmoidal notch
- External surface of squamous part of frontal bone
- Foramen caecum of frontal bone
- Fossa for lacrimal gland
- Frontal crest
- Frontal eminence
- Frontal part of orbital margin
- Glabella
- Internal surface of squamous part of frontal bone
- Nasal margin of frontal bone
- Nasal part of frontal bone
- Nasal spine of frontal bone
- Opening of frontal sinus
- Orbital part of frontal bone
- Orbital plate of frontal bone
- Orbital surface of frontal bone
- Parietal margin of frontal bone
- Sphenoidal margin of frontal bone
- Squamous part of frontal bone
- Superciliary arch
- Temporal line
- Temporal surface of frontal bone
- Trochlear fovea
- Zygomatic process of frontal bone
Names
- Latin
- Os frontale
- English
- Frontal bone
- French
- Os frontal
- Spanish
- Hueso frontal
- Portuguese
- Osso frontal