Sphenoparietal suture
Cranial suture
| Sphenoparietal suture | |
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 Lateral view of sphenoparietal suture (red) | |
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| Latin | sutura sphenoparietalis |
| TA98 | A03.1.02.009 |
| TA2 | 1583 |
| 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.
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Position of sphenoparietal suture (shown in red). Animation. -
Parietal bones (above) and sphenoid bone (below) -
Position of sphenoparietal sutureParietal boneSphenoid bone -
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 page 182 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
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Fibrous joints of the human skull
- Pterygospinous ligament
- Stylohyoid ligament
- Involving the frontal bone
- occipitomastoid
- lambdoid
- sagittal
- Involving the sphenoid bone
- sphenoethmoidal
- with frontal bone
- with parietal bone
- sphenosquamosal
- Involving the Petrous part of the temporal bone
- squamosal
- Facial: palatomaxillary suture
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