Frontal eminence

Frontal eminence

Frontal bone. Outer surface. (Frontal eminence is labeled at center right.)
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Identifiers
Latin t. frontale, e. frontalis
Dorlands
/Elsevier
t_21/12827493
TA A02.1.03.004
FMA 52852

Anatomical terms of bone

A frontal eminence (or tuber frontale) refers to one of two rounded elevations on the frontal bone that lie about three centimeters above the supraorbital margin on each side of the frontal suture.

Eminences vary in size in different individuals, are occasionally unsymmetrical, and are especially prominent in young skulls. The surface of the bone above them is smooth, and covered by the galea aponeurotica.

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References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


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