Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Frontal bone

The forehead bone. It forms the upper margins of the orbits and the front of the cranial vault.

Key points

• Forehead + upper orbital margins.
• Frontal air sinuses.
• Coronal suture with the parietals.
• Frontal: membrane bone.
• Skull flat bones: intramembranous ossification.
• Bone: type I collagen + hydroxyapatite.

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1487–1489, 1493, 1499
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 10, PDF pp. 140–141
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 7, PDF pp. 121–125, 126, 130; ch. 15, PDF p. 269

More from the head and neck

• Frontal lobe
• Genioglossus
• Geniohyoid
• Glossopharyngeal nerve
• Hippocampus
• Hyoglossus
• Hyoid bone
• Hypoglossal nerve
• Hypothalamus
• Inferior oblique
• Inferior rectus
• Insula

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