Sphenozygomatic suture

Sphenozygomatic suture
Sphenozygomatic suture (highlighted in red)
Sphenozygomatic suture (blue circle) Sphenoid bone Zygomatic bone
Details
Identifiers
Latin	sutura sphenozygomatica
TA	A03.1.02.022
FMA	52956
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The sphenozygomatic suture is the cranial suture between the sphenoid bone and the zygomatic bone.

Additional images

Position of two bones, Animation.

Sphenoid bone

Zygomatic bone

Sphenozygomatic suture (blue circle), seen from behind.

Side view of the skull. (Sphenozygomatic suture visible at center, between sphenoid bone, which is colored yellow in the diagram, and the zygomatic bone, which is colored in white.).

The skull from the side.

References

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

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Anatomy diagram: 34256.000-1 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier
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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