Squamosal suture

Squamosal suture

Side view of the skull. Squamosal suture in red.

Side view of the skull. Squamosal suture highlighted.
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Identifiers
Latin sutura squamosa cranii
Dorlands
/Elsevier
12774238
TA A03.1.02.010
A03.0.00.010
FMA 52946

Anatomical terminology

The squamosal suture, or squamous suture, arches backward from the pterion and connects the temporal squama with the lower border of the parietal bone: this suture is continuous behind with the short, nearly horizontal parietomastoid suture, which unites the mastoid process of the temporal with the region of the mastoid angle of the parietal bone.

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