Concept information
Preferred term
Temporal Bone
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
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
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Finnish
-
os petrosus
-
os temporale
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temporaaliluu
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013701
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