Sphenosquamosal suture

Sphenosquamosal suture
Sphenosquamosal suture (red)
Side view of the skull.
Details
Identifiers
Latin	sutura sphenosquamosa
Dorlands /Elsevier	12774197
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The Sphenosquamosal suture is a cranial suture between the sphenoid bone and the squama of the temporal bone.

Additional images

Left zygomatic bone in situ.

Base of the skull. Upper surface.

References

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

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Anatomy diagram: 34256.000-2 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier
Anatomy diagram: 34257.000-2 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier

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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