Sphenoparietal suture

Sphenoparietal suture
Sphenoparietal suture in red.
Position of sphenoparietal suture Parietal bone Sphenoid bone
Details
Identifiers
Latin	Sutura sphenoparietalis
Dorlands /Elsevier	12774191
TA	A03.1.02.009
FMA	52945
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The Sphenoparietal suture is the cranial suture between the sphenoid bone and the parietal bone. It is one of the sutures that comprises the pterion.

Additional images

Position of sphenoparietal suture (shown in red). Animation.
Parietal bones (above) and sphenoid bone (below).
Side view of the skull. Sphenoparietal suture indicated by the arrow.
Left zygomatic bone in situ. (Sphenoparietal suture visible at upper right in blue.)

References

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

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Fibrous joints of the human skull

Syndesmosis	Pterygospinous ligament Stylohyoid ligament

Sutures	Involving the frontal bone frontoethmoidal suture frontal suture coronal suture occipitomastoid lambdoid sagittal Involving the sphenoid bone sphenoethmoidal with frontal bone with parietal bone sphenosquamosal Involving the Petrous part of the temporal bone sphenopetrosal petrosquamous squamosal Facial: palatomaxillary suture Involving the zygomatic process with sphenoid bone with temporal bone with frontal bone

Mouth	Gomphosis Periodontal fiber Periodontium Dental alveolus Gingiva Cementum

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