Lacrimal fossa
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| Lacrimal fossa | |
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| Frontal bone. Inner surface. | |
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| Medial wall of left orbit. ("Fossa for lacrimal sac" labeled at center left.) | |
| Latin | fossa glandulae lacrimalis |
| Gray's | subject #33 137 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | f_14/12375953 |
The inferior surface of each orbital plate of the frontal bone is smooth and concave, and presents, laterally, under cover of the zygomatic process, a shallow depression, the lacrimal fossa (or fossa for lacrimal gland), for the lacrimal gland.
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