Frontoethmoidal suture

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Frontoethmoidal suture
Base of the skull. Upper surface. (Frontoethmoidal suture is not labeled, but is visible at top, between frontal bone in blue, and ethmoid bone in white.)
Left zygomatic bone in situ.
Latin	s. frontoethmoidalis
Gray's	subject #47 190
Dorlands/Elsevier	s_30/12773999

The frontoethmoidal suture is the suture between the ethmoid bone and the frontal bone.

It is located in the anterior cranial fossa.

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• Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, at Elsevier 34257.000-2

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