Forehead

In human anatomy, the forehead is an area of the head bounded by three features, two of the skull and one of the scalp. The top of the forehead is marked by the hairline, the edge of the area where hair on the scalp grows. The bottom of the forehead is marked by the supraorbital ridge, the bone feature of the skull above the eyes. The two sides of the forehead are marked by the temporal ridge, a bone feature that links the supraorbital ridge to the coronal suture line and beyond. However, the eyebrows do not form part of the forehead.

Forehead
Male forehead
Details
SystemMultiple
ArterySupraorbital, Supratrochlear
VeinSupraorbital, Frontal
NerveTrigeminal, Facial
Identifiers
Latinsinciput
MeSHD005546
TA98A01.1.00.002
A02.1.00.013
TA2101
FMA63864
Anatomical terminology

In Terminologia Anatomica, sinciput is given as the Latin equivalent to "forehead" (etymology of sinciput: from semi- "half" and caput "head".).

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