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Lowest part of the front of the skull behind the eye socket
The sphenoidal spine (Latin: "spina angularis") is a downwardly directed process at the apex of the great wings of the sphenoid bone that serves as the origin of the sphenomandibular ligament.[1]
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Base of skull. Inferior surface. Spine of sphenoid bone marked with black circle
References
- ^ Gray, Henry (1918). Gray's Anatomy (20th ed.). p. 150.
External links
- Anatomy figure: 27:02-04 at Human Anatomy Online, SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Schematic view of key landmarks of the infratemporal fossa."
- "Anatomy diagram: 34257.000-1". Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator. Elsevier. Archived from the original on 2013-02-12.
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