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  2. Sphenoid bone - Wikipedia

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    The sphenoid bone [note 1] is an unpaired bone of the neurocranium. It is situated in the middle of the skull towards the front, in front of the basilar part of the occipital bone. The sphenoid bone is one of the seven bones that articulate to form the orbit. Its shape somewhat resembles that of a butterfly, bat or wasp with its wings extended.

  3. Body of sphenoid bone - Wikipedia

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    The lateral surfaces of the body are united with the greater wings of the sphenoid and the medial pterygoid plates.. Above the attachment of each greater wing is a broad groove, curved something like the italic letter f; it lodges the internal carotid artery and the cavernous sinus, and is named the carotid sulcus.

  4. Pterion - Wikipedia

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    The pterion is the region where the frontal, parietal, temporal, and sphenoid bones join. [1] It is located on the side of the skull, just behind the temple.It is also considered to be the weakest part of the skull, which makes it clinically significant, as if there is a fracture around the pterion it could be accompanied by an epidural hematoma.

  5. Sphenoidal lingula - Wikipedia

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    Anatomical terms of bone [ edit on Wikidata ] Along the posterior part of the lateral margin of the carotid groove of the sphenoid bone , in the angle between the body and great wing , is a ridge of bone, called the lingula .

  6. Foramen ovale (skull) - Wikipedia

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    The foramen ovale is an opening in the greater wing of the sphenoid bone. [1] The foramen ovale is one of two cranial foramina in the greater wing, the other being the foramen spinosum. [2]: 771 The foramen ovale is posterolateral to the foramen rotundum and anteromedial to the foramen spinosum.

  7. Greater wing of sphenoid bone - Wikipedia

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    The greater wings of the sphenoid are two strong processes of bone, which arise from the sides of the body, and are curved upward, laterally, and backward; the posterior part of each projects as a triangular process that fits into the angle between the squamous and the petrous part of the temporal bone and presents at its apex a downward-directed process, the spine of sphenoid bone.

  8. Foramen spinosum - Wikipedia

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    It is so-named because of its relationship to the spinous process of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone. However, due to incorrectly declining the noun, the literal meaning is "hole full of thorns" (Latin: foramen spinosum). The correct, but unused name would, in fact, be foramen spinae. [4]

  9. Sphenoid - Wikipedia

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    Sphenoid may refer to: Sphenoid bone, a bone in anatomy; Sphenoid (geometry), a tetrahedron with 2-fold mirror or rotation symmetry This page was last edited on 30 ...