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frontal bone

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Also known as os frontis

skull bone

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The frontal bone is the flat bone that forms your forehead and the roof of the eye sockets. It's an important part of your skull that protects your brain and helps give your face its shape.

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Frontal bones
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In the human skull, the frontal bone or sincipital bone is an unpaired bone which 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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