Sphenofrontal suture

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Sphenofrontal suture
Left zygomatic bone in situ.
Side view of the skull. (Sphenofrontal suture visible at center, between sphenoid bone, which is colored yellow in the diagram, and the frontal bone, which is colored in gray, and is at the upper left.).
Latin Sutura sphenofrontalis
Gray's subject #46 182
Dorlands/Elsevier s_30/12774174

The Sphenofrontal suture is the cranial suture between the sphenoid bone and the frontal bone.

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