formed by the outer surfaces of four bones of the skull. The fossa is filled by the temporalis muscle. Medial/floor: frontal bone, parietal bone, (squamous...

extend into the retromolar fossa to prevent trauma of the mucosa due to the contraction of the temporalis muscle. The temporalis muscle is likely to be involved...

mastication in the infratemporal fossa. These are the masseteric nerve to masseter muscle, the deep temporal nerve to temporalis muscle, the lateral pterygoid...

Fossa jugularis may refer to: Jugular fossa (fossa jugularis ossis temporalis) Suprasternal notch (fossa jugularis sterni) This disambiguation page lists...

The retromolar fossa is a fossa of the mandible located posteriorly to the third molar. Part of the temporal muscle's tendon inserts into it. https://medical-dictionary...

articulation with the great wing of the sphenoid. Squama temporalis Squama temporalis Squama temporalis This article incorporates text in the public domain...

The jugular fossa is a deep depression in the inferior part of the temporal bone at the base of the skull. It lodges the bulb of the internal jugular...

subarcuate fossa is a shallow depression upon the internal surface of the petrous part of the temporal bone forming the wall of the posterior cranial fossa. The...

vein; in the infant, this depression is represented by a large fossa, the subarcuate fossa, which extends backward as a blind tunnel under the superior...

from before backward, forms a part of the temporal fossa, and gives attachment to the Temporalis; the inferior or infratemporal, smaller in size and...

end of the outer surface of the squama temporalis. This tubercle forms the front boundary of the mandibular fossa, and in the fresh state is covered with...

superficial or deep to the lateral pterygoid muscle, to the pterygopalatine fossa. It supplies the deep structures of the face, and may be divided into mandibular...

thin plate of bone, the tegmen tympani, which separates it from the middle fossa of the base of the skull, below by the mastoid process, laterally by the...

temporal fossa[citation needed] and enter the deep surface of the temporalis muscle. The deep temporal nerves provide motor innervation to the temporalis muscle...

– the epicranial aponeurosis; below them it forms part of the temporal fossa, and affords attachment to the temporal muscle. At the back part and close...

mastoid foramen.) Details Identifiers Latin sulcus sinus sigmoidei ossis temporalis TA98 A02.1.06.006 TA2 456 FMA 55499 Anatomical terms of bone [edit on...

smooth, and affords insertion to the temporalis and masseter muscles. Its medial surface gives insertion to the temporalis, and presents a ridge which begins...

from before backward, forms a part of the temporal fossa, and gives attachment to the temporalis; the inferior infratemporal surface, smaller in size...

loose envelope, attached above to the circumference of the mandibular fossa and the articular tubercle immediately in front; below, to the neck of the...

notch of temporal bone, and its anterior belly is attached to the digastric fossa of mandible; the two bellies are united by an intermediate tendon which...

fossa is simultaneously accompanied by a constriction in the sagittal plane. As such, the anterior and posterior portions of the anterior temporalis muscle...

fossa. In the temporal fossa, it passes superior-ward between the two layers of the temporal fascia,: 357  between the temporal bone and temporalis muscle...

slightly concave; it constitutes the posterior boundary of the mandibular fossa, and is in contact with the retromandibular part of the parotid gland. Its...

arises by two roots: an anterior, directed inward in front of the mandibular fossa, where it expands to form the articular tubercle. a posterior, which runs...

vein. It is a venous plexus of considerable size, situated between the temporalis muscle and lateral pterygoid muscle, and partly between the two pterygoid...

Lambda Inion Pterion Asterion Gonion Temporal fossa Zygomatic arch Infratemporal fossa Pterygopalatine fossa Pterygomaxillary fissure Fontanelles Anterior...

the dogs may have lost the need to maintain strong temporalis muscles; a reduced temporal fossa will cause a dog's head to appear flattened. Poi dogs...

fossa allowed for a very large temporalis muscle, which extends from the side of the cranium to the coronoid process of the mandible. The temporalis was...

For the mouth to close it requires the following muscles: the masseter, temporalis, and medial pterygoid muscle. For the jaw to open it requires the lateral...

portion of the temporal bone close to its angle of junction with the squama temporalis; it is prolonged backward so as to roof in the tympanic antrum, and forward...