Lateral skull showing cranial sutures and temporal fossa
After Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy (1906-1911); modernized for Neuro.Wiki
About this plate
Lateral skull showing cranial sutures and temporal fossa. Lateral view of the skull.
Structures labelled on this plate
- sphenofrontal suture
- sphenoparietal suture
- coronal suture
- superior temporal line
- inferior temporal line
- sphenozygomatic suture
- zygomatico-frontal suture
- frontal bone (vertical plate)
- parietal bone
- squamosal suture
- lachrymal bone
- nasale bone
- nasomaxillary suture
- greater wing of sphenoid
- planum temporale
- temporal bone (squamous portion)
- lambdoid suture
- lachrymomaxillary suture
- frontal process of maxilla
- anterior nasal spine
- maxilla
- zygomatic bone
- temporal fossa
- mastoid process
- occipital bone (squamous portion.)
- mandible
- external auditory meatus
- condyloid process of mandible
- zygomatic arch
- sphenoquamosal suture
- occipitomastoid suture
- mental foramen
- coronoid process of mandible
- zygomatico-temporal suture
- parietomastoid suture
Source: After Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy (1906-1911). Public domain (Sobotta's Atlas of Human Anatomy, 1906-1911), modernized rendering.