tetrapod frontal bone
The bone forming the forehead and roof of the eye orbit. [ http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0-683-40008-8&isbn=1/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7914451 MP:0000107 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_bone ]
Term info
- EMAPA:19016
- UMLS:C0016732 (ncithesaurus:Frontal_Bone)
- GAID:226
- SCTID:181793006
- MA:0001466
- FMA:52734
- NCIT:C32635
- VSAO:0000208
- VHOG:0001324
- Wikipedia:Frontal_bone
- MESH:D005624
- AAO:0000206
pheno_slim
fused in humans, paired in other animals
In the mouse the parietal originates from cephalic paraxial mesoderm (Jiang 2000; Morriss-Kay 2001), whereas in the chicken it is traced back to either mesodermal (Noden 1978) or neural crest (Couly 1992, 1993).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Frontal_bone.png, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Gray136.png
os frontale
frontal bone, frontal, os frontal
uberon
UBERON:0000209
Frontal bone
Term relations
- neurocranium bone
- dermal bone
- flat bone
- intramembranous bone
- overlaps some orbit of skull
- part of some dermatocranium