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This provides sensation for the skin of the forehead, and for the front edge of the scalp. The other part, the deep division, runs into the occipitofrontalis muscle and provides frontoparietal sensation. [1] Blood supply to the forehead is via the left and right superorbital, supertrochealar, and anterior branches of the superficial temporal ...
The cranial region includes the upper part of the head while the; facial region includes the lower half of the head beginning below the ears. The forehead is referred to as the frontal region. The eyes are referred to as the orbital or ocular region. The cheeks are referred to as the buccal region. The ears are referred to as the auricle or ...
The frontalis muscle (from Latin 'frontal muscle') is a muscle which covers parts of the forehead of the skull. Some sources consider the frontalis muscle to be a distinct muscle. However, Terminologia Anatomica currently classifies it as part of the occipitofrontalis muscle along with the occipitalis muscle. [2]
In the human skull, the frontal bone or sincipital bone is a unpaired bone which consists of two portions. [1] These are the vertically oriented squamous part, and the horizontally oriented orbital part, making up the bony part of the forehead, part of the bony orbital cavity holding the eye, and part of the bony part of the nose respectively.
The word "temple" as used in anatomy has a separate etymology from the other meaning of word temple, meaning "place of worship".Both come from Latin, but the word for the place of worship comes from templum, whereas the word for the part of the head comes from Vulgar Latin * tempula, modified from tempora, plural form ("both temples") of tempus, a word that refers both to "time" and to this ...
In the human skull, the zygomatic bone (from Ancient Greek: ζῠγόν, romanized: zugón, lit. 'yoke'), also called cheekbone or malar bone, is a paired irregular bone, situated at the upper and lateral part of the face and forming part of the lateral wall and floor of the orbit, of the temporal fossa and the infratemporal fossa.
head, occipitofrontalis, forehead (left/right) skin of eyebrow and glabella: epicranial aponeurosis: ophthalmic artery: facial nerve [CNVII], temporal branch: wrinkles eyebrow: procerus, corrugator supercilii, and orbicularis oculi muscles [1] 2 1 orbicularis oculi, orbital part head, forehead/eyelid (left/right) frontal bone: lateral palpebral ...
It originates on the lateral two-thirds of the highest nuchal line, and on the mastoid process of the temporal bone. [2] It inserts into the epicranial aponeurosis. [2] the frontal belly, near the frontal bone. [1] It originates from an intermediate tendon that connects to the occipital belly. [2]