Frontal eminence

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Bone: Frontal eminence
Frontal bone. Outer surface. (Frontal eminence is labeled at center right.)
Latin t. frontale, e. frontalis
Gray's subject #33 135
Dorlands/Elsevier t_21/12827493

On the frontal bone, on either side of the frontal suture, about 3 cm. above the supraorbital margin, is a rounded elevation, the frontal eminence (tuber frontale).

These eminences vary in size in different individuals, are occasionally unsymmetrical, and are especially prominent in young skulls; the surface of the bone above them is smooth, and covered by the galea aponeurotica.

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