Base of skull. Inferior surface. Pink region is temporal bone, and stylomastoid foramen is in black circle at center of pink region.
Left temporal bone. Inferior surface. (Stylomastoid foramen is third label from the bottom on the left.)
Details
Part of
Temporal bone of skull
System
Skeletal
Identifiers
Latin
foramen stylomastoideum
TA98
A02.1.06.048
TA2
684
FMA
55816
Anatomical terms of bone
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The stylomastoid foramen is a foramen between the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone of the skull. It is the termination of the facial canal, and transmits the facial nerve, and stylomastoid artery. Facial nerve inflammation in the stylomastoid foramen may cause Bell's palsy.
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facial nerve, and stylomastoid artery. Facial nerve inflammation in the stylomastoidforamen may cause Bell's palsy. The stylomastoidforamen is between the...
The stylomastoid artery enters the stylomastoidforamen and supplies the tympanic cavity, the tympanic antrum and mastoid cells, and the semicircular...
vertical) segment (from pyramidal eminence to stylomastoidforamen) extratemporal segment (from stylomastoidforamen to post parotid branches) The motor part...
of the skull. It extends between the internal acoustic meatus and stylomastoidforamen. It transmits the facial nerve (CN VII) (after which it is named)...
mastoid process, with the styloid and stylomastoidforamen now on the under surface. The descent of the foramen is accompanied by a requisite lengthening...
branch point of the facial nerve (extratemporal) after it leaves the stylomastoidforamen. This division takes place within the parotid gland. Commonly, it...
The facial nerve then reaches the side of the face by using the stylomastoidforamen, also in the temporal bone. Its fibers then spread out to reach and...
traveling through the facial canal, eventually exiting the skull at the stylomastoidforamen. A common mnemonic to remember the anterior quadrants of the inner...
the internal acoustic canal to the facial canal and exits at the stylomastoidforamen. Provides motor innervation to the muscles of facial expression,...
digastric muscle. It branches from the facial nerve (CN VII) near to the stylomastoidforamen as the CN VII exits the facial canal (it thus branches proximal to...
neck, the posterior auricular artery issues the stylomastoid artery which enters the stylomastoidforamen to provide arterial supply to the facial nerve...
foramen, a major foramen of the pelvis Interventricular foramen, channels connecting ventricles in the brain Intervertebral foramen, foramina formed between...
process Occipital groove Mastoid foramen Facial canal Inferior surface of petrous part Styloid process Stylomastoidforamen Tympanic cavity Mandibular fossa...
two sides of the face. The stimulation electrode is located at the stylomastoidforamen and the recording electrode is located near the nasolabial fold....
initiates at the medulla and passes into the facial canal via the stylomastoidforamen. The primary aforementioned muscle, the masseter, is supplied by...
through the facial canal. Before the nerve exits the skull via the stylomastoidforamen and after the nerve to the stapedius muscle has branched off, the...
mastoid processes is the stylomastoidforamen; it is the termination of the facial canal, and transmits the facial nerve and stylomastoid artery situated between...
function. Eumegamyines additionally typically have a well developed stylomastoidforamen, which funnels the facial nerve, and a short ear canal. Josephoartigasia...
perineural spread of tumor along the facial nerve extending to the stylomastoidforamen Histopathological image of adenoid cystic carcinoma of the salivary...
bone, it crosses the facial canal about 4 mm (0.16 in) above the stylomastoidforamen, and here it gives off an ascending branch which joins the facial...
off the maxillary artery in the infratemporal fossa, it runs through the foramen spinosum to supply the dura mater (the outer meningeal layer) and the calvaria...
the first branch outside of the skull. This origin is close to the stylomastoidforamen. It runs upward in front of the mastoid process. It is joined by...
degree of injury. In this test there is direct current applied to the stylomastoidforamen and assess with visual response. No longer used and do not predict...
Posterior auricular nerve, arises from the facial nerve close to the stylomastoidforamen and runs upward in front of the mastoid process Great auricular nerve...
vertically downwards below the opening area of the ear canal. The stylomastoidforamen is small while the hyaloid fossa is large. D. minor is known from...
eardrum. The tympanohyal pit of the hyoid arch is in front of the stylomastoidforamen and behind the mastoid. The pit is positioned in an angle between...
Nadbath block : In Nadbath block, the facial nerve is blocked at the stylomastoidforamen. The patient is likely to experience pain. This technique was first...
anastomoses with the anterior tympanic branch of the maxillary artery, and the stylomastoid artery.: 416 Because the caroticotympanic artery is more often absent...