Forehead

With brow or forehead (plural foreheads, Latin frons ) of lying about the eye part of the face of man, mammals and other animals is called.

It starts with people over the eye sockets and ends at the hairline. Laterally it is bounded by the temples. The bony basis of the forehead called the prefrontal ( frontal ), in which the paired frontal sinus is (also frontal sinus, frontal sinus ), a sinus of the nose.

The so-called frown wrinkles form on the forehead, which is becoming more prominent in old age. This movement of the forehead skin is provided by a facial muscle, the muscle frontalis. Some people try to pull out the fold lines of the forehead conclusions to humans ( → Metoposkopie ).

Sayings

• One thing to defy = fearlessly confront a thing
• He has the face to say ... he is = to say so bold ( outrageous ) ...
• Have a high forehead = jokingly for: have a bald head
• In Schiller's " Song of the Bell " is an oft-quoted line: "From the heated brow, must run the sweat"
• Something -iron front do = unshakable; inexorably

Or as an end face many times the front or the front side of an object or a building is known.