frontal sinus

UBERON:0001760 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

The frontal sinus occupies the dorsal part of the skull medial to the orbit. It overlaps cranial and nasal cavities and is often referred to as the conchofrontal sinus. — UBERON

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Respiratory system > Nasal cavity > Paranasal sinuses: Frontal	—

Broader habitats

paranasal sinus UBERON:0001825
Nasal cavity habitatmech:GOLD.bcb2f8b7f3

Also called

Paranasal sinuses: Frontal — GOLD
cavity of frontal bone — UBERON
sinus frontales — UBERON

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to UBERON:0001760 'frontal sinus' (EXACT). Variant-match review (#12): the variant route reaches UBERON:0000209 'tetrapod frontal BONE'. The path is Respiratory system > Nasal cavity > Paranasal sinuses, so the frontal SINUS is meant — the cavity, not the bone around it. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Respiratory system > Nasal cavity > Paranasal sinuses: Frontal (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.e8d686e00d)

Provenance

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