FRONTAL EMINENCE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("frontal eminence" is a kind of...):

bulge; bump; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings)

Holonyms ("frontal eminence" is a part of...):

forehead; frontal bone; os frontale (the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits)

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