Osteology
Left temporal bone, anterior view
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Osteology
Left temporal bone, anterior view
- Parietal incisure
- Sigmoid sulcus
- Arcuate eminence
- Hiatus facial canal
- Geniculum of facial canal (within hiatus)
- Sulcus greater (superficial) petrosal nerve
- Sulcus lesser petrosal (superficial) nerve
- Anterior pyramidal surface
- Pyramidal apex
- Carotid canal
- Canal for Tensor tympani
- Sheath of styloid process
- Styloid process
- Parietal margin
- Temporal bone (squamous part)
- Tegmen tympani
- Zygomatic process
- Sphenoidal margin
- Petrosquamous fissure (nearly obliterated)