Superciliary arches
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Superciliary arches | |
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Frontal bone. Outer surface. (Label for superciliary arch is at center right.) | |
Latin | a. superciliaris |
Gray's | subject #33 135 |
Dorlands/Elsevier | a_58/12150739 |
On the squama frontalis of the frontal bone, below the frontal eminences, and separated from them by a shallow groove, are two arched elevations, the superciliary arches; these are prominent medially, and are joined to one another by a smooth elevation named the glabella.
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