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The team next gave participants a working-memory task and found traveling waves in their frontal and temporal lobes became more organized half a second after people were prompted to recall information.
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Cortical folding appears to decrease with age across large swaths of the frontal, parietal and occipital lobes in both young people with autism and controls.
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Viewed from the side, Washington’s Roman nose seems larger than in the frontal poses in the familiar paintings.
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His frontals start at $1,000, lace front wigs go for $2000, and custom wigs go for double that.
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There should be some sunshine Tuesday morning before an approaching frontal system generates some afternoon and evening showers.
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The month’s weather was marked by a persistent pattern in which frontal boundaries remained draped over the region.
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But in modern humans, the frontal lobes of the brain have expanded toward the back and sides, creating structures called the frontal opercula.
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The damage the disease is doing is to his frontal cortex, where cognition and intellect resides.
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First Known Use of frontal
14th century
Definition of frontal
1
: of, relating to, or adjacent to the forehead or the frontal bone
2 a
: of, relating to, or situated at the front
b
: directed against the front or at the main point or issue : direct
- frontal assault
3
: parallel to the main axis of the body and at right angles to the sagittal plane
4
: of or relating to a meteorological front
Examples of frontal in a Sentence
most cars have the engine in the frontal part
Recent Examples of frontal from the Web
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In Tennyson’s hands the light brigade’s disastrous frontal assault on Russian troops in the Crimean War produced some stirring verse.
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But earlier, the president with a frontal attack on Merkel, hammering Germany for its pipeline deal with Putin, to pump natural gas from Russia directly to Germany.
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The artist and the show’s organizers couldn’t have known that just as the show opened, U.S. immigration officers would begin a frontal attack on this maternal bond, wresting children from their parents and confining them in detention centers.
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An isolated, weak tornado cannot be ruled out, given the tendency of these frontal boundaries to generate a bit of spin at low levels and feeding that spin into a thunderstorm cell.
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Our next chance of rain will be Thursday and Friday into Saturday as a frontal boundary becomes stationary over our area, boosting humidity and triggering periods of showers and thunderstorms.
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Riley wrote a full-frontal nude scene to ensure Cassius felt raw and exposed.
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Because the line of view is directed at the moon instead of the sun, lunar eclipses, unlike solar eclipses, are completely safe for full frontal viewing.
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Carter then sent his frontal attack force in two waves.
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Origin and Etymology of frontal
New Latin frontalis, from Latin front-, frons
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First Known Use: 1656
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Definition of frontal for English Language Learners
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: relating to the front of something : directed at the front
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: relating to or showing the front of the human body
FRONTAL Defined for Kids
Definition of frontal for Students
: of or directed at a front
- a frontal attack
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of frontal
1
: of, relating to, or adjacent to the forehead or the frontal bone
2
: of, relating to, or situated at the front or anteriorly
3
: parallel to the main axis of the body and at right angles to the sagittal plane
- a frontal plane
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