Temporal bone information

The temporal bones are situated at the sides and base of the skull, and lateral to the temporal lobes of the cerebral cortex. The temporal bones are overlaid...

The mastoid part of the temporal bone is the posterior (back) part of the temporal bone, one of the bones of the skull. Its rough surface gives attachment...

maxillary, and temporal), and four borders. The term zygomatic derives from the Ancient Greek Ζυγόμα, zygoma, meaning "yoke". The zygomatic bone is occasionally...

petrous part of the temporal bone is pyramid-shaped and is wedged in at the base of the skull between the sphenoid and occipital bones. Directed medially...

The tympanic part of the temporal bone is a curved plate of bone lying below the squamous part of the temporal bone, in front of the mastoid process, and...

of the bone in an arched direction are two curved lines, the superior and inferior temporal lines; the former gives attachment to the temporal fascia...

process of maxilla from the maxilla Zygomatic process of temporal bone from the temporal bone The term zygomatic derives from the Greek Ζυγόμα, zygoma...

The squamous part of temporal bone, or temporal squama, forms the front and upper part of the temporal bone, and is scale-like, thin, and translucent....

consist of 22 bones—eight cranial bones and fourteen facial skeleton bones. In the neurocranium these are the occipital bone, two temporal bones, two parietal...

The temporal styloid process is a slender bony process of the temporal bone extending downward and forward from the undersurface of the temporal bone just...

the occipital bone to the parietal bones. The occipitomastoid suture joins the occipital bone and mastoid portion of the temporal bone. The sphenobasilar...

synovial articulation between the temporal bone of the skull above and the mandible below; it is from these bones that its name is derived. The joints...

of the head that fills the temporal fossa, superior to the zygomatic arch so it covers much of the temporal bone.Temporal refers to the head's temples...

four bones of the skull. The fossa is filled by the temporalis muscle. Medial/floor: frontal bone, parietal bone, (squamous part of) temporal bone, and...

superficially over the posterior root of the zygomatic process of the temporal bone; about 5 cm above this process it divides into two branches: a. frontal...

bones (8) Occipital bone Parietal bones (2) Frontal bone Temporal bones (2) Sphenoid bone (sometimes counted as facial) Ethmoid bone (sometimes counted...

occipital bone, temporal bone, and portions of the sphenoid bone; the latter, superior portions of the sphenoid and ethmoid bones. The temporal bone fracture...

The jawbone is the skull's only movable, posable bone, sharing joints with the cranium's temporal bones. The mandible hosts the lower teeth (their depth...

located between the sphenoid bone, the apex of the petrous part of the temporal bone, and the basilar part of the occipital bone. The foramen lacerum (Latin:...

and tentorium cerebelli. It is formed by the sphenoid bones, temporal bones, and occipital bone. It lodges the cerebellum, and parts of the brainstem...

the zygomatic bone and the temporal bone The zygomatic process, a bony protrusion of the human skull, mostly composed of the zygomatic bone but also contributed...

include the following eight bones: 1 ethmoid bone 1 frontal bone 1 occipital bone 2 parietal bones 1 sphenoid bone 2 temporal bones The ossicles (three on...

under the jaw. Its posterior belly is attached to the mastoid notch of temporal bone, and its anterior belly is attached to the digastric fossa of mandible;...

the head; towards the temporal bone Temporality (ecclesiastical), or temporal goods, secular possessions of the Church Temporal database All pages with...

between the hyoid bone, and the temporal styloid process (of the temporal bone of the skull). It attaches at the lesser horn of hyoid bone inferiorly,[citation...

the zygomatic arch, or cheek bone, is a part of the skull formed by the zygomatic process of the temporal bone (a bone extending forward from the side...

temporal, zygomatic, palatine, vomer, and occipital bones and helps to connect the neurocranium to the facial skeleton. Articulates with ethmoid bone...

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...

internal acoustic canal) is a canal within the petrous part of the temporal bone of the skull between the posterior cranial fossa and the inner ear....