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fronto-|ˈfrɒntəʊ|
used in scientific nomenclature for fronti-, the combining form of L. front-em, frōns front, chiefly in anatomical and surgical combs. signifying ‘pertaining to the front or forehead and to something else’; as in fronto-auricular, fronto-ethmoid, fronto-malar, fronto-mental (see mental a.2), fronto-nasal, fronto-occipital, fronto-orbital, fronto-parietal, fronto-sphenoidal, fronto-squamosal, fronto-temporal, for which see the word forming the second member of the combination.
1857Bullock Cazeaux' Midwif. 221 The fronto-mental, or the facial, extends from the frontal boss to the point of the chin. 1864Reader No. 85. 204/1 The fronto-nasal protuberance. 1866Huxley Preh. Rem. Caithn. 99 The basi-cranial line is from the anterior margin of the foramen magnum to the fronto-nasal suture. 1872Mivart Elem. Anat. 100 The parietal may be one with the frontal, forming a fronto-parietal bone. 1886F. H. H. Guillemard Cruise Marchesa I. 214 Thus causing the fronto-orbital edge to be very sharp. |