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sphenoid bone
Structure:
- unpaired bone of the cranium, consisting of a central part or body & 6 processes: 2 greater wings, 2 lesser wings & 2 pterygoid processes
Articulation:
- it articulates the occipital bone, frontal bone, ethmoid bone & vomer & with the paired temporal bone, parietal bone, zygomatic bone, palatine bone & sphenoid concha
Specific
scaphoid fossa of sphenoid bone (Cruveilhier fossa)
sphenoidal emissary foramen (venous/Vesalius foramen)
vaginal/sheath process of sphenoid bone
General
bone
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
Component-of
skull (cranium)
Components
clinoid process
foramen rotundum
foramen spinosum
inferior orbital fissure
lacrimal foramen
lateral pterygoid plate
medial pterygoid plate
nasolacrimal duct (NLD)
optic groove (prechiasmatic sulcus)
pterygoid canal (vidian canal)
pterygoid notch
pterygoid process
sella turcica (hypophyseal fossa)
superior orbital fissure (sphenoidal formamen)
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