The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prefrontal \Pre*fron"tal\, a. (Anat. & Zo["o]l.) Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes. -- n. A prefrontal bone or scale.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, pertaining to or situated in the anterior part of the frontal lobe 2 Of, pertaining to or situated in front of the frontal bone n. A prefrontal bone, scale, etc.
WordNet
adj. anterior to a frontal structure; "a prefrontal bone"; "prefrontal lobes"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "prefrontal".
Atop their heads they bear a pair of inter-nasals, a pair of prefrontals, a frontal, a supraocular on each side and a pair of parietals.
A fast-acting microvirus that has no symptoms except to degrade four or five sites in the human brain, particularly in the prefrontal ventromedial cortex.
One of the earliest consequences of the anticipatory skills that accompanied the evolution of the prefrontal lobes must have been the awareness of death.
During the Stroop interference task,” she says, looking at the report, “he has decreased activity of the anterior cingulate in both dorsal and subgenual regions, accompanied by increased dorsolateral prefrontal activity.
They started with neurons in the limbic system, the prefrontal cortex, and the amygdala.
Tumors have made it necessary to remove large areas of the prefrontal lobe without particularly significant effect on the individual, and yet surely it is not a useless mass of nerve tissue.
Spasms of overactivity in my orbito-frontal and medial prefrontal lobes.
This is the area of the frontal lobe that lies before the motor and premotor areas and is therefore called the prefrontal lobe (see illustration, p.
But in another two years at the outside, had it not come to my attention, the creeping penetration syndrome would have resulted in prefrontal lobe incision with the usual consequences of internal cerebral shield suppuration.
Standing over Krendler with an instrument resembling a tonsil spoon, Dr Lecter removed a slice of Krendler's prefrontal lobe, then another, until he had four.
A doctor slices off a prefrontal lobe, say, and puts it into the skull of a man whose own corresponding brain-part has been destroyed by some disease or violence.
From beyond it they heard Cody say: 'The next time I have you under gas I think I'll take out your tongue and about half of your prefrontal lobe.
Could cutting off the prefrontal lobe squelch the violent emissions of her brain?
Short of prefrontal lobotomy, there are only three ways to stop a man from jaunting: a blow on the head producing concussion, sedation which prevents concentration, and concealment of jaunte co-ordinates.
Of course, it wasn't as good as just plain doing a prefrontal lobotomy, the one the Earth psychia.