Maxillary hiatus

Maxillary hiatus

Medial wall of left orbit.

Left maxilla. Nasal surface.
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Latin hiatus maxillaris
Dorlands
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h_11/12422030
TA A02.1.12.021
FMA 57758

Anatomical terminology

Below the bulla ethmoidalis, and partly hidden by the inferior end of the uncinate process of ethmoid bone, is the maxillary hiatus (or ostium maxillare, or maxillary sinus ostium, or maxillary ostium, or opening from the maxillary sinus); in a frontal section this opening is seen to be placed near the roof of the sinus.

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References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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