Osteology
Interior of base of skull
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Osteology
Interior of base of skull
- Crista gall & lamina cribrosa ethmoid bone
- Orbital part of frontal bone & sphenofrontal suture
- Lesser wing sphenoid bone
- Greater wing sphenoid bone
- Sphenosquamous suture
- Temporal bone (squamous part)
- Carotid canal & foramen lacerum
- Petrosquamous fissure
- Petrosal part of temporal bone
- Squamous suture
- Occipitomastoid suture
- Mastoid part of temporal bone
- Occipital bone (squamous part)
- Parietal bone
- Lambdoidal suture
- Foramen magnum
- Internal occipital crest (cruciate eminence)
- Anterior cranial fossa
- Optic foramen & anterior clinoid process
- Sella turcica & posterior clinoid process
- Foramen ovale
- Foramen spinosum
- Middle cranial fossa
- Clivus
- Condyloid canal
- Posterior cranial fossa
- Intersutural bone