💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Frontal process"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| frontal bonenoun | (anatomy) The bone which forms the front part of the skull and the upper part of the eye sockets and nasal cavity. |
| frontalnoun | (architecture) The façade of a building. |
| premaxillanoun | (anatomy) Either of a pair of bones in front of the maxillary bones in the upper vertebrate jaw |
| orbital processnoun | (anatomy) A process of the palatine bone that forms part of the floor of the orbit. |
| palatine bonenoun | (anatomy) Either of a pair of bones that are situated behind and between the maxillae, in humans are of extremely irregular form, and make up parts of the eye socket, the nasal cavity, and the hard palate. |
| zygomatic processnoun | (anatomy) A protrusion from the rest of the skull, most of it belonging to the zygomatic bone, but also contributed to by the frontal bone, maxilla and temporal bone. |
| cortical platenoun | (anatomy) A layer of compact bone that overlies the spongiosa of the alveolar process on the mandible and maxilla. |
| intermaxillanoun | (anatomy) premaxilla |
| nasal conchanoun | (anatomy) Any one of the three thin bony plates on the lateral wall of the nasal cavity. |
| alveolar processnoun | (anatomy) A bony ridge or raised thickened border of the upper or lower jaw that contains the sockets of the teeth. |
| frontal sinusnoun | (anatomy) A paranasal sinus situated behind the superciliary arches. |
| medial pterygoid platenoun | (anatomy) A long narrow plate that forms the medial part of the pterygoid process, terminates in the pterygoid hamulus, and forms with its lateral surface part of the pterygoid fossa and with its medial surface the lateral boundary of a choana. |
| hard palatenoun | A thin horizontal bony plate of the skull, located in the roof of the mouth. |
| nasal bonenoun | (anatomy, zootomy) Either of two bones of the skull of vertebrates above the fishes which lie in front of the frontal bones and in humans are oblong in shape forming by their junction the bridge of the nose and partly covering the nasal cavity. |
| vaginal processnoun | (embryology) An outpouching of peritoneum through the inguinal canal, from which the serous membrane (tunica vaginalis) covering the testicle is derived. |
| cribriform platenoun | (anatomy) In the human skull, a sieve-like region of the ethmoid bone (which separates the nasal cavity from the brain). |
| maxillopalatinenoun | (anatomy) That area of the skull. |
| lateral pterygoid platenoun | (anatomy) A broad thin plate that forms the lateral part of the pterygoid process and gives attachment to the lateral pterygoid muscle on its lateral surface and to the medial pterygoid muscle on its medial surface. |
| superior nasal conchanoun | (anatomy) The upper of two thin bony processes of the ethmoid bone on the lateral wall of each nasal fossa that forms the upper boundary of the superior meatus of the nose. |
| palatinenoun | A palace official, especially in an imperial palace. |
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