Zygomaticotemporal suture

Zygomaticotemporal suture
Zygomaticotemporal suture (red)
Zygomaticotemporal suture (green)
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Identifiers
Latin	Sutura temporozygomatica
Dorlands /Elsevier	12774250
TA	A03.1.02.024
FMA	52958
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The zygomaticotemporal suture (or temporozygomatic suture) is the cranial suture between the zygomatic bone and the temporal bone.

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Zygomaticotemporal suture (blue circle) and position of two bones.

Zygomatic bone

Temporal bone

Position of zygomaticotemporal suture (red). Animation.

Cross section (temporal bones removed). Animation.

Still image (red)

Side view of the skull. (Zygomaticotemporal suture is suture between zygomatic bone, at left in white, and temporal bone, at center in pink.)

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

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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Zygomaticotemporal suture

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