Osteology
Left temporal bone, medial view
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Osteology
Left temporal bone, medial view
The petrous part of the bone projects into the foreground. The squamous part lies above and to its right, the mastoid portion to the left.
- Parietal margin
- Parietal incisura
- Sigmoid sulcus
- Mastoid foramen
- Occipital margin
- Superior petrous sulcus & subarcuate fossa
- Aperture of external vestibular aqueduct
- Posterior pyramidal surface
- External aperture cochlear canaliculi
- Internal acoustic meatus
- Posterior pyramidal angle
- Inferior pyramidal surface
- Temporal bone (squamous part)
- Cerebral surface
- Groove for posterior branch of middle meningeal artery
- Arcuate eminence
- Tegmen tympani
- Zygomatic process
- Sphenoidal margin
- Ant. pyramidal surface
- Pyramidal apex
- Styloid process