The bone forming the forehead and roof of the eye orbit. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_bone http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7914451 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 MP:0000107 ]
Term information
- NCIT:C32635
- Wikipedia:Frontal_bone
- GAID:226
- FMA:52734
- EMAPA:19016
- VHOG:0001324
- AAO:0000206
- MESH:D005624
- VSAO:0000208
- UMLS:C0016732 (ncithesaurus:Frontal_Bone)
- SCTID:181793006
- MA:0001466
pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Frontal_bone.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Gray136.png
In the mouse the parietal originates from cephalic paraxial mesoderm (Jiang 2000; Morriss-Kay 2001), whereas in the chicken it is traced back to either mesodermal (Noden 1978) or neural crest (Couly 1992, 1993).
Term relations
- neurocranium bone
- dermal bone
- flat bone
- intramembranous bone
- overlaps some orbit of skull
- part of some dermatocranium