Bassett Collection Large Image - Lane Medical Library, Stanford University Medical Center

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Osteology

Skull, posterior view

A large sutural bone is present near the junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures.

1 .	Parietal foramen
2 .	Intersutural bone
3 .	Lambdoidal suture
4 .	Occipital bone (squamous part)
5 .	Parietomastoid suture
6 .	Occipitomastoid suture
7 .	Superior nuchal line
8 .	Mandibular foramen
9 .	Sagittal suture
10 .	Parietal bone
11 .	Mastoid part of temporal bone
12 .	Mastoid foramen
13 .	Mastoid process
14 .	Mastoid incisura
15 .	External occipital protuberance (unusually prominent)
16 .	Angle of mandible