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Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy

Osteology

Interior of base of skull

Image #36-5

KEYWORDS: Bones cartilage joints.

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Osteology
Interior of base of skull
  1. Crista gall & lamina cribrosa ethmoid bone
  2. Orbital part of frontal bone & sphenofrontal suture
  3. Lesser wing sphenoid bone
  4. Greater wing sphenoid bone
  5. Sphenosquamous suture
  6. Temporal bone (squamous part)
  7. Carotid canal & foramen lacerum
  8. Petrosquamous fissure
  9. Petrosal part of temporal bone
  10. Squamous suture
  11. Occipitomastoid suture
  12. Mastoid part of temporal bone
  13. Occipital bone (squamous part)
  14. Parietal bone
  15. Lambdoidal suture
  16. Foramen magnum
  17. Internal occipital crest (cruciate eminence)
  18. Anterior cranial fossa
  19. Optic foramen & anterior clinoid process
  20. Sella turcica & posterior clinoid process
  21. Foramen ovale
  22. Foramen spinosum
  23. Middle cranial fossa
  24. Clivus
  25. Condyloid canal
  26. Posterior cranial fossa
  27. Intersutural bone