| frontolacrimal suture | Line of union between the upper margin of the lacrimal and the orbital plate of the frontal bone. Synonym: sutura frontolacrimalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| frontomalar | Relating to the frontal and zygomatic bones. Synonym: frontomalar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontomaxillary | Relating to the frontal and the maxillary bones. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontomaxillary suture | Articulation of the frontal process of the maxilla with the frontal bone. Synonym: sutura frontomaxillaris. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontonasal | Relating to the frontal and the nasal bones. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontonasal duct | The passage that leads downward from the frontal sinus to open into the ethmoidal infundibulum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontonasal primordium | The unpaired embryonic prominence between the medial nasal elevations, which eventually merges with them to contribute to the bridge of the nose and the underlying nasal septum. Synonym: forebrain eminence, forebrain prominence, frontonasal primordium, frontonasal process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontonasal process | The unpaired embryonic prominence between the medial nasal elevations, which eventually merges with them to contribute to the bridge of the nose and the underlying nasal septum. Synonym: forebrain eminence, forebrain prominence, frontonasal primordium, frontonasal process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontonasal prominence | The unpaired embryonic prominence between the medial nasal elevations, which eventually merges with them to contribute to the bridge of the nose and the underlying nasal septum. Synonym: forebrain eminence, forebrain prominence, frontonasal primordium, frontonasal process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontonasal suture | Line of union of the frontal and of the two nasal bones. Synonym: sutura frontonasalis, sutura nasofrontalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontoparietal | Relating to the frontal and the parietal bones. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontopontine tract | A large group of fibres arising from the frontal lobe of the cerebral hemisphere, especially the precentral gyrus, descending in the capsula interna, farther caudally composing the medial part of the crus cerebri in which they extend caudalward to end in the gray matter (pontine nuclei) of the ventral part of the pons. Synonym: tractus frontopontinus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontoposterior position | A cephalic presentation of the foetus with its forehead directed toward the right (right frontoposterior, RFP) or to the left (left frontoposterior, LFP) sacroiliac articulation of the mother. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontosphenoidal process | The process of the zygomatic bone which extends upward to form the lateral margin of the orbit and articulates with the frontal bone and greater wing of the sphenoid bone. Synonym: frontosphenoidal process, processus frontalis ossis zygomatici. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frontotemporal | Relating to the frontal and the temporal bones. (05 Mar 2000) |