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frontal

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Word definitions for frontal in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frontal \Fron"tal\, a. [Cf. F. frontal.] Belonging to the front part; being in front; esp. (Anat.), Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"being in front," 1650s, of the forehead; 1971 with reference to the naked standing body; from Modern Latin frontalis , from front- , stem of Latin frons "brow, forehead" (see front (n.)). In some uses probably from front (n.) + adjectival suffix -al (1). ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. belonging to the front part; "a frontal appendage" of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air; "frontal rainfall" meeting front to front; "a frontal attack"; "a head-on collision" [syn: head-on ] of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES frontal system full frontal attack ▪ a full frontal attack on the government full frontal nudity ▪ scenes of full frontal nudity full frontal ▪ scenes of full frontal nudity COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN assault ...

Usage examples of frontal.

The debris of the eyeball was enucleated and a drain was placed in the frontal wound, coming out through the orbit.

The lower half of the ascending frontal convolution, the greater half of the sigmoid gyrus, the posterior third of the lower and middle frontal convolutions, the base and posterior end of the upper convolution, and the base of the corresponding portion of the falciform lobe were involved.

Frontal Lobe Sun Belt Universities you will find the young of the Pre-Dom Species obsessed with disciplined Self-Actualized Hedonic Freedom.

The fourth visitor, Boyd Huckle, who was more valuable to the Chief Executive than his frontal lobes, appeared to be half asleep as cigar ash drifted down to dull the shine on one of his three-hundred-dollars-a-pair cowboy boots.

The cerebral hemispheres were asymmetrical, the frontal lobes, corresponding to the psychical performances in the case, being relatively pretty large, while the posterior portion of the third convolution on the left side, the island of Reil, and the operculum were very small, corresponding to the inability to learn to speak.

The third frontal convolution and the island of Reil were small on both sides, corresponding to the alalia.

In the skull, the supraorbital processes of the frontals are broader in the rorquals than in others, and the olfactory fossa is less elongated.

As the long waves of amphtracs, each trailing a plume of white spray, raced with their supporters toward the beaches, the fire support battleships, cruisers and destroyers, anchored only 1250 yards off shore, delivered frontal and enfilading fire on beach defenses.

Matthew Passion were, for the evolving organism of human thought, feathered wings, apposing thumbs, new layers of frontal cortex.

All the while the guest had been smiling more and more broadly, and as Carter slipped into blankness the last thing he saw was that dark odious face convulsed with evil laughter and something quite unspeakable where one of the two frontal puffs of that orange turban had become disarranged with the shakings of that epileptic mirth.

The right-hand side of the drawing illustrates the foundation outline, the left-hand side a frontal view as if seen from a tall oak, though Brill stands in the middle of a depression between the hills, empty except for the sorcerer and his players, and the heaps of stone on the south side.

Linear frontal fracture of inner table with extensive extravasation of blood between the bone and dura mater.

At craniotomy there was found, not a meningioma as had been hoped, but a huge carcinoma involving the orbitofrontal aspects of both frontal lobes.

From the standpoint of thermoregulation, the division of the brain into a cerebellum and a cerebrum with temporal, parietal, and frontal lobes is meaningless.

The cloud was broken cumulus, a legacy of the frontal system with endless altostratus riding on the cold air.