[fruhn-tl] 
| 1. | of, in, or at the front: a frontal view; frontal attack. |
| 2. | Anatomy.
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| 3. | Meteorology. of or pertaining to the division between dissimilar air masses: frontal zone; frontal surface. |
| 4. | Fine Arts.
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| 5. | Ecclesiastical. a movable cover or hanging for the front of an altar. |
| 6. | frontlet (def. 1). |
| 7. | Anatomy. any of several parts in the frontal region, esp. the frontal bone. |
[n. kawr-uh-nl, kor-; adj. kuh-rohn-l, kawr-uh-nl, kor-] | 1. | a crown; coronet. |
| 2. | a garland. |
| 3. | of or pertaining to a coronal. |
| 4. | Anatomy.
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| 5. | Phonetics. (of a speech sound) articulated with the tip of the tongue, esp. in a retroflex position. |
| 6. | Linguistics. (in distinctive feature analysis) articulated with the blade of the tongue raised; dental, alveolar, or palato-alveolar. |
| 7. | of or pertaining to the tip of the tongue. |
[fruhnt-lit] | 1. | Also, frontal. a decorative band, ribbon, or the like, worn across the forehead: The princess wore a richly bejeweled frontlet. |
| 2. | the forehead of an animal. |
| 3. | Ornithology. the forehead when marked by a different color or texture of the plumage. |
| 4. | Judaism. the phylactery worn on the forehead. |
| fron·tal 1 (frŭn'tl) adj.
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| fron·tal 2 (frŭn'tl) n.
[Middle English frontel, from Old French, from Medieval Latin frontāle, from Latin frōns, front-, forehead, front.] |
coronal cor·o·nal (kôr'ə-nəl, kə-rō'nəl)
adj.
Of or relating to a corona, especially of the head.
Of, relating to, or having the direction of the coronal suture or of the plane dividing the body into front and back portions.
frontal fron·tal (frŭn'tl)
adj.
Of, relating to, directed toward, or situated at the front.
Of or relating to the forehead or frontal bone.
Of or relating to the frontal plane.
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