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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 ofMandible
SystemSkeletal
Identifiers
Latinforamen mandibulae
TA98A02.1.15.028
TA2865
FMA53172
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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and the mandibular foramen on medial aspect of ramus, into which the mandibular nerve enters to become the inferior alveolar nerve. The mandibular canal...

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temporal squama, containing the foramen ovale, which transmits the mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve, and the foramen spinosum, which transmits the...

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Mandibular nerve

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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...

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neurovascular bundle with the inferior alveolar nerve and vein to the mandibular foramen where it enters and passes anteriorly inside the mandible, supplying...

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The mandibular incisive canal is a bilaterally paired bony canal within the anterior portion of the mandible that extends from the mental foramen (usually)...

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Inferior alveolar nerve

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mylohyoid nerve)[contradictory] before entering the mandibular foramen: 543  to come to pass in the mandibular canal within the mandible. Passing through the...

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bony ridge on the medial side of the mandible. It is next to the mandibular foramen. It gives attachment to the sphenomandibular ligament. The lingula...

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of a mandibular body and two mandibular rami (singular: ramus) on bilateral sides of the face. The mandibular ramus contains the mandibular foramen, which...

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Pakicetus

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underwater hearing. Cetaceans also all categorically exhibit a large mandibular foramen within the lower jaw, which holds a fat pack and extends towards the...

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Medial pterygoid muscle

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medial surface of the ramus and angle of the mandible, as high as the mandibular foramen. The insertion joins the masseter muscle to form a common tendinous...

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Muscles of mastication

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(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...

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Evolution of cetaceans

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protocetids, the size of the mandibular foramen had increased. The large mandibular foramen indicates that the mandibular fat pad was present. However...

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Inferior alveolar nerve anaesthesia

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the mandibular foramen on the medial surface of the mandibular ramus.[citation needed] Administration of anesthesia near the mandibular foramen causes...

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Sphenomandibular ligament

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attached at to lingula of mandible and the inferior margin of the mandibular foramen. The lateral pterygoid muscle, auriculotemporal nerve, and the maxillary...

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Outline of human anatomy

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Ramus of mandible Angle of mandible Mandibular foramen Mandibular canal Mylohyoid groove Coronoid process Mandibular notch Condylar process Pterygoid fovea...

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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...

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Pakicetidae

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pakicetid mandible, the mandibular foramen is small and comparable in size to those of extant land mammals and the acoustic mandibular fat pad characteristic...

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Maxillary artery

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artery which gives off its mylohyoid branch just prior to entering the mandibular foramen Accessory meningeal artery The second or pterygoid or muscular portion...

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Ambulocetus

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and slopes gently down in basilosaurids and later cetaceans. The mandibular foramen opens below the coronoid process, and is around midway between terrestrial...

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Lingula

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the medial aspect of the body of the mandible, just anterior to the mandibular foramen the Lingula of cerebellum Taenia of fourth ventricle In the vasiform...

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