Skull: Inferior View
Description
An inferior view of the human skull showing the cranial base, foramina, and associated bones and sutures.
Original diagram by Yuqian Sun.
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Ala
Articular tubercle of temporal bone
Basilar part of occipital bone
Carotid canal of temporal bone
Choanae
Condylar canal and fossa
External acoustic meatus
External occipital crest
External occipital protuberance
Foramen lacerum
Foramen magnum
Foramen ovale of sphenoid bone
Foramen spinosum
Frontal bone
Greater palatine foramen
Greater wing of sphenoid bone
Groove for auditory tube
Horizontal plate of palatine bone
Hypoglossal canal
Incisive fossa of maxilla
Inferior nuchal line
Jugular fossa
Lateral plate of pterygoid process of sphenoid bone
Lesser palatine foramina
Mandibular fossa of temporal bone
Mastoid canaliculus
Mastoid foramen of temporal bone
Mastoid notch of temporal bone
Mastoid process of temporal bone
Medial plate of pterygoid process of sphenoid bone
Median palatine suture of maxilla
Occipital condyle
Occipital groove for occipital artery of temporal bone
Palatine process of maxilla
Parietal bone
Petrotympanic fissure of temporal bone
Petrous part of temporal bone
Pharyngeal tubercle of occipital bone
Posterior nasal spine
Pterygoid fossa of pterygoid process of sphenoid bone
Pterygoid hamulus of sphenoid bone
Pyramidal process
Scaphoid fossa of pterygoid process of sphenoid bone
Spine of sphenoid bone
Styloid process of temporal bone
Stylomastoid foramen
Superior nuchal line
Transverse palatine suture
Tympanic canaliculus of temporal bone
Vomer
Zygomatic bone
Zygomatic process of maxilla
Zygomatic process of temporal bone