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

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Temporal Bone  

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Entry terms

  • Stylomastoid Foramen

Note

  • fractures: index TEMPORAL BONE /inj + SKULL FRACTURES; neoplasms: coordinate with SKULL NEOPLASMS

Scope note

  • Either of a pair of compound bones forming the lateral (left and right) surfaces and base of the skull which contains the organs of hearing. It is a large bone formed by the fusion of parts: the squamous (the flattened anterior-superior part), the tympanic (the curved anterior-inferior part), the mastoid (the irregular posterior portion), and the petrous (the part at the base of the skull).

In other languages

  • ohimoluu

    Finnish

  • os petrosus
  • os temporale
  • temporaaliluu
  • Tinningben

    Swedish

  • Os temporale
  • Temporalben

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013701

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