Temporal line

Temporal line

Side view of skull. Temporal lines shown in red.

Side view of the skull. Temporal lines labeled at top right.
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Identifiers
Latin linea temporalis
Dorlands
/Elsevier
l_10/12495892
TA A02.1.02.008
A02.1.02.009

Anatomical terms of bone

Crossing the middle of the parietal bone in an arched direction are two curved lines, the superior and inferior temporal lines; the former gives attachment to the temporal fascia, and the latter indicates the upper limit of the muscular origin of the Temporal muscle.

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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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