SKULL: INFERIOR VIEW 265
Identify the indicated structures in this inferior view
of the skull.
39 1
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38 3
37 4
36 5
35 6
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32
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SKULL: INFERIOR VIEW
1. Incisive fossa 20. External occipital crest
2. Hard palate (palatine process 21. Foramen magnum
of maxilla) 22. Occipital condyle
3. Hard palate (horizontal plate 23. Hypoglossal canal
of palatine bone) 24. Mastoid notch
4. Greater palatine foramen 25. Mastoid process
5. Lesser palatine foramen 26. Jugular foramen
6. Body of sphenoid 27. Styloid process
7. Medial plate of pterygoid 28. Groove for auditory tube
process 29. Mandibular fossa
8. Lateral plate of pterygoid 30. Articular tubercle
process 31. Opening of pterygoid canal
9. Scaphoid fossa 32. Vomer
10. Foramen lacerum 33. Greater wing (of sphenoid
11. Foramen ovale bone)
12. Foramen spinosum 34. Pterygoid fossa
13. Carotid canal 35. Pyramidal process of palatine
14. Stylomastoid foramen bone
15. Basilar part of occipital bone 36. Pterygoid hamulus
16. Pharyngeal tubercle 37. Posterior nasal aperture
17. Inferior nuchal line (choana)
18. Superior nuchal line 38. Alveolar arch
19. External occipital 39. Posterior nasal spine
protuberance
Figure from Gray’s Anatomy for Students, 3rd edition, p. 861.
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