Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
Osteology
Skull and mandible, inferior view
Image #35-6
KEYWORDS: Bones cartilage joints, Overview.
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Osteology
Skull and mandible, inferior view
The anteroposterior diameter of the foramen magnum is unusually large in this skull. The view of the occipital bone (41-2) demonstrates the more common shape of this opening.
- Zygomaticomaxillary suture
- Mandible
- Greater palatine foramen
- Zygomatic arch
- Posterior border of vomer bone
- Foramen ovale
- Foramen spinosum
- Petrosal part of temporal bone
- Styloid process
- External acoustic meatus
- Stylomastoid foramen
- Mastoid process
- Occipitomastoid suture
- Nasal bone
- Infraorbital foramen
- Body of maxilla
- Median palatine suture & Palatine process of maxilla
- Horizontal plate & Sphenoid.process palatine bone
- Coronoid process
- Pterygoid hamulus
- Lateral plate of pterygoid process
- Medial plate of pterygoid process
- Body sphenoid bone
- Foramen lacerum (lingula of sphenoid bone seen crossing this opening)
- Basal part occipital bone
- Petrooccipital fissure
- Carotid canal
- Jugular fossa
- Occipital condyle
- Sagittal suture (visible through foramen magnum)
- Mastoid foramen
- External occipital crest (unusually prominent)