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lacrimal bone

noun Anatomy.

a small, thin, membrane bone forming the front part of the inner wall of each orbit.

Origin of lacrimal bone

First recorded in 1850–55

Also called lacrimal.

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lacrimal bone in Medicine

lacrimal bone

n.

A thin irregularly rectangular plate forming part of the medial wall of the eye socket behind the frontal process of the maxilla.

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