Inferior view of the external cranial base
After Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy (1906-1911); modernized for Neuro.Wiki
About this plate
Inferior view of the external cranial base. Inferior view of the skull.
Structures labelled on this plate
- ala vomeris
- incisive foramen
- horizontal portion of palate bone
- median palatine suture
- internal pterygoid plate
- palatine process of superior maxilla
- zygomatic bone (temporal surface)
- transverse palate suture
- external pterygoid plate
- zygomatic process of maxilla
- zygomatico-maxillary suture
- infratemporal surface of greater wing of sphenoid
- posterior nasal spine
- zygomatic arch
- infratemporal crest
- sphenoparietal suture
- sphenosquamosal suture
- zygomaticotemporal suture
- foramen ovale
- articular eminence
- sphenopetrosal fissure probe in hypoglossal canal
- foramen spinosum
- petrooccipital fissure
- foramen lacerum
- styloid process
- orifice of carotid canal
- external auditory meatus
- stylomastoid foramen
- mandibular fossa
- occipitomastoid suture
- jugular fossa
- basilar portion
- petrous portion
- mastoid process
- mastoid groove
- mastoid portion of temporal bone
- lateral portion
- parietomastoid suture
- mastoid foramen
- occipital condyle
- planum nuchale
- occipital bone
- lambdoid suture
- condyloid fossa
- foramen magnum
- inferior nuchal line
- external occipital protuberance
- superior nuchal line
Source: After Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy (1906-1911). Public domain (Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy, 1906-1911), modernized rendering.