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Definitions of frontal
  1. adjective
    meeting front to front
    "a frontal attack"

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  2. noun
    an adornment worn on the forehead

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  3. noun
    the face or front of a building

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  4. noun
    a drapery that covers the front of an altar
  5. adjective
    belonging to the front part
    "a frontal appendage"

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  6. adjective
    of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone
    "the frontal lobes"

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  7. adjective
    of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air
    "frontal rainfall"
Definition that contains frontal
  • frontal of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone
  • lobotomy surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes
  • glabella a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges
  • leucotomy surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes
  • prefrontal anterior to a frontal structure
  • pick's disease a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia
  • frontal suture the suture between two halves of the frontal bone (usually obliterated by the age of 6)
  • sylvian fissure the deepest and most prominent of the cortical fissures; separates the frontal lobes and temporal lobes in both hemispheres
  • superciliary arch a ridge on the frontal bone above the eye socket
  • prefrontal leukotomy surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes
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