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The temporal fossa is a fossa (shallow depression) on the side of the skull bounded by the temporal lines above, and the zygomatic arch below. Its floor is formed by the outer surfaces of four bones of the skull.
middle cranial fossa: foramen lacerum: 2: artery of pterygoid canal, Meningeal branch of ascending pharyngeal artery, emissary vein: nerve of pterygoid canal through its anterior wall temporal: middle cranial fossa: carotid canal: 2: internal carotid artery: internal carotid plexus, sympathetics from the superior cervical ganglion: temporal ...
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 by the sides of the head known as the temples where four of the cranial bones fuse. Each temple is covered by a temporal muscle. The temporal bones house the structures of the ears.
In anatomy, the temporalis muscle, also known as the temporal muscle, is one of the muscles of mastication (chewing). It is a broad, fan-shaped convergent muscle on each side of the head that fills the temporal fossa, superior to the zygomatic arch so it covers much of the temporal bone. [1] Temporal refers to the head's temples.
The disc is composed of dense fibrocartilagenous tissue that is positioned between the head of the mandibular condyle and the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone. The temporomandibular joints are one of the few synovial joints in the human body with an articular disc, another being the sternoclavicular joint. The disc divides each joint into ...
The infratemporal fossa is connected to other spaces in the skull. It is connected to the middle cranial fossa by the foramen ovale and the foramen spinosum. It is connected to the temporal fossa, which lies deep to zygomatic arch. It is connected to the pterygopalatine fossa through the pterygomaxillary fissure.
The pterion is located in the temporal fossa, approximately 2.6 cm behind and 1.3 cm above the posterolateral margin of the frontozygomatic suture. [2] It is the junction between four bones: the parietal bone. the squamous part of temporal bone. the greater wing of sphenoid bone. the frontal bone.
Subarcuate fossa; Dorsum sellae; Jugular process; Petro-occipital fissure; Condylar canal; Jugular tubercle; Tuberculum sellae; Carotid groove; Fossa hypophyseos; Posterior clinoid processes; Sigmoid sulcus; Internal occipital protuberance; Internal occipital crest; Ethmoidal spine; Vestibular aqueduct; Chiasmatic groove; Middle clinoid process ...