Opening on the inner surface of the mandible, allowing for passage of mandibular neurovasculature
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Mandibular foramen
The mandibular foramen sits in the ramus of the mandible
Mandible viewed from the inner side of the mandible, showing the mandibular foramen at left.
Details
Part of
Mandible
System
Skeletal
Identifiers
Latin
foramen mandibulae
TA98
A02.1.15.028
TA2
865
FMA
53172
Anatomical terms of bone
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The mandibular foramen is an opening on the internal surface of the ramus of the mandible. It allows for divisions of the mandibular nerve and blood vessels to pass through.
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access to the mandibularforamen. The sphenomandibular ligament, because of its attachment to the lingula, overlaps the opening of the foramen. It is a vestige...
and the meningeal branch of the mandibular nerve (sometimes it passes through the foramen ovale instead). The foramen spinosum is often used as a landmark...
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ganglion and through the foramen ovale to unite with the sensory root just outside the skull.[better source needed] The mandibular nerve immediately passes...
neurovascular bundle with the inferior alveolar nerve and vein to the mandibularforamen where it enters and passes anteriorly inside the mandible, supplying...
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mylohyoid nerve)[contradictory] before entering the mandibularforamen: 543 to come to pass in the mandibular canal within the mandible. Passing through the...
bony ridge on the medial side of the mandible. It is next to the mandibularforamen. It gives attachment to the sphenomandibular ligament. The lingula...
of a mandibular body and two mandibular rami (singular: ramus) on bilateral sides of the face. The mandibular ramus contains the mandibularforamen, which...
underwater hearing. Cetaceans also all categorically exhibit a large mandibularforamen within the lower jaw, which holds a fat pack and extends towards the...
medial surface of the ramus and angle of the mandible, as high as the mandibularforamen. The insertion joins the masseter muscle to form a common tendinous...
(or CN V). More specifically, they are innervated by the mandibular branch, or V3. The mandibular nerve is both sensory and motor. Embryologically, the muscles...
protocetids, the size of the mandibularforamen had increased. The large mandibularforamen indicates that the mandibular fat pad was present. However...
the mandibularforamen on the medial surface of the mandibular ramus.[citation needed] Administration of anesthesia near the mandibularforamen causes...
attached at to lingula of mandible and the inferior margin of the mandibularforamen. The lateral pterygoid muscle, auriculotemporal nerve, and the maxillary...
Ramus of mandible Angle of mandible MandibularforamenMandibular canal Mylohyoid groove Coronoid process Mandibular notch Condylar process Pterygoid fovea...
to the nerve before it enters the mandibular foramen, which locates on the medial aspect of the mandibular ramus. This is to block the nerve transmission...
pakicetid mandible, the mandibularforamen is small and comparable in size to those of extant land mammals and the acoustic mandibular fat pad characteristic...
artery which gives off its mylohyoid branch just prior to entering the mandibularforamen Accessory meningeal artery The second or pterygoid or muscular portion...
"V"-shaped groove. The apex of the terminal sulcus is marked by a blind foramen, the foramen cecum, which is a remnant of the median thyroid diverticulum in early...
and slopes gently down in basilosaurids and later cetaceans. The mandibularforamen opens below the coronoid process, and is around midway between terrestrial...
the medial aspect of the body of the mandible, just anterior to the mandibularforamen the Lingula of cerebellum Taenia of fourth ventricle In the vasiform...
ganglion located immediately below the foramen ovale in the infratemporal fossa and on the medial surface of the mandibular nerve. It is functionally associated...
today. Some examples of terms used to describe bones include the term "foramen" to describe a hole through which something passes, and a "canal" or "meatus"...