Frontoethmoidal suture
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| Frontoethmoidal suture | |
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| Base of the skull. Upper surface. (Frontoethmoidal suture is not labeled, but is visible at top, between frontal bone in blue, and ethmoid bone in white.) | |
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| Left zygomatic bone in situ. | |
| Latin | s. frontoethmoidalis |
| Gray's | subject #47 190 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | s_30/12773999 |
The frontoethmoidal suture is the suture between the ethmoid bone and the frontal bone.
It is located in the anterior cranial fossa.
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| Bones of head and neck: cranial sutures, fontanelles, and related regions |
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| cranial sutures: Coronal - Lambdoid - Occipitomastoid - Sphenofrontal - Sphenoparietal - Sphenosquamosal - Sphenozygomatic -Squamosal - Zygomaticotemporal - Zygomaticofrontal - Frontal/Metopic - Sagittal - Frontoethmoidal - Petrosquamous - Sphenoethmoidal - Sphenopetrosal
fontanelles: Anterior fontanelle - Posterior fontanelle foramina of multiple bones: Inferior orbital fissure - Foramen lacerum - Jugular foramen - Nasolacrimal canal Anterior cranial fossa - Middle cranial fossa - Posterior cranial fossa - Cranial cavity other compound structures: Asterion - Nasion - Pterion - Dacryon - Zygomatic arch - Calvaria - Infratemporal fossa - Stephanion - Pterygomaxillary fissure - Pterygopalatine fossa |
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