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Body Regions > Head > Skull Base > Infratemporal Fossa
... > Musculoskeletal System > Skeleton > Bone and Bones > Skull > Skull Base > Infratemporal Fossa
... > Tissues > Connective Tissue > Bone and Bones > Skull > Skull Base > Infratemporal Fossa

Preferred term

Infratemporal Fossa  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • NIM when merely locational; neoplasms: coordinate with SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS

Scope note

  • The compartment that lies posterior to the MAXILLA and inferior to the side wall of the SKULL deep to the ramus of the MANDIBLE. It contains several FACIAL NERVES and the CAROTID ARTERIES and the JUGULAR VEINS.

History note

  • 2020

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000080884

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