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Tissues > Connective Tissue > Bone and Bones > Skull > Sphenoid Bone
Musculoskeletal System > Skeleton > Bone and Bones > Skull > Sphenoid Bone

Preferred term

Sphenoid Bone  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Greater Sphenoid Wing
  • Greater Sphenoid Wings
  • Sphenoid Wing, Greater

Note

  • fractures: coordinate SPHENOID BONE /inj (IM) + SKULL FRACTURES (IM); neoplasms: coordinate IM with SKULL NEOPLASMS (IM)

Scope note

  • An irregular unpaired bone situated at the SKULL BASE and wedged between the frontal, temporal, and occipital bones (FRONTAL BONE; TEMPORAL BONE; OCCIPITAL BONE). Sphenoid bone consists of a median body and three pairs of processes resembling a bat with spread wings. The body is hollowed out in its inferior to form two large cavities (SPHENOID SINUS).

In other languages

  • kitaluu

    Finnish

  • os sphenoidale
  • sfenoidaaliluu
  • Kilben

    Swedish

  • Os sphenoidale

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013100

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