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  2. Palatovaginal canal - Wikipedia

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    The palatovaginal canal (also pharyngeal canal) is a small canal formed between the sphenoidal process of palatine bone, and vaginal process of sphenoid bone. [1]: 508 It connects the pterygopalatine fossa and [1]: 370 and nasal cavity.

  3. Sphenopalatine foramen - Wikipedia

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    The sphenopalatine foramen is a foramen of the skull that connects the nasal cavity and the pterygopalatine fossa. It gives passage to the sphenopalatine artery , nasopalatine nerve , and the superior nasal nerve (all passing from the pterygopalatine fossa into the nasal cavity).

  4. Posterior septal artery - Wikipedia

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    In most cases, the posterior septal artery divides from the sphenopalatine artery in the pterygopalatine fossa. [2] This part of the posterior septal artery is called the pterygopalatine segment. [1] The posterior septal artery passes through the sphenopalatine foramen to enter the nasal cavity. [2]

  5. Pterygopalatine fossa - Wikipedia

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    It is the indented area medial to the pterygomaxillary fissure leading into the sphenopalatine foramen. It communicates with the nasal and oral cavities, infratemporal fossa, orbit, pharynx, and middle cranial fossa through eight foramina. [2]

  6. List of foramina of the human body - Wikipedia

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    Foramen ovale (heart), an opening between the venous and arterial sides of the fetal heart; Foramen transversarium, one of a pair of openings in each cervical vertebra, in which the vertebral artery travels; Greater sciatic foramen, a major foramen of the pelvis; Interventricular foramen, channels connecting ventricles in the brain

  7. Sphenopalatine - Wikipedia

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    Sphenopalatine may refer to: sphenopalatine artery, an artery of the head, commonly known as the artery of epistaxis; sphenopalatine ganglion (or "pterygopalatine ganglion") sphenopalatine nerves; sphenopalatine foramen, a foramen in the skull that connects the nasal cavity with the pterygopalatine fossa

  8. Palatine bone - Wikipedia

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    The sphenopalatine foramen is the opening between the sphenoid bone and orbital processes of the palatine bone; it opens into the nasal cavity and gives passage to branches from the pterygopalatine ganglion and the sphenopalatine artery from the maxillary artery.

  9. Posterior lateral nasal arteries - Wikipedia

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    The sphenopalatine artery passes through the sphenopalatine foramen into the cavity of the nose, at the back part of the superior meatus.Here it gives off its posterior lateral nasal branches which spread forward over the conchæ and meatuses, anastomose with the ethmoidal arteries and the nasal branches of the descending palatine, and assist in supplying the frontal, maxillary, ethmoidal, and ...