Greater palatine foramen
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| Greater palatine foramen | |
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| Permanent teeth of upper dental arch, seen from below. (Greater palatine foramen labeled at lower right.) | |
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| Base of skull. Inferior surface. | |
| Latin | foramen palatinum majus |
| Gray's | subject #46 180 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | f_12/12373477 |
At either posterior angle of the hard palate is the greater palatine foramen, for the transmission of the descending palatine vessels and anterior palatine nerve; and running forward and medialward from it a groove, for the same vessels and nerve.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- SUNY Labs 22:os-0607
- Dictionary at eMedicine Greater+palatine+foramen
- Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, at Elsevier 05287.011-1
- Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, at Elsevier 34257.000-1
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| Foramina of the skull (and canals and fissures) |
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| foramina: cecum - ethmoidal (anterior, posterior) - incisive - jugular - lacerum - magnum - mandibular - mastoid - mental - optic - orbital (infraorbital, supraorbital) - ovale - palatine (greater, lesser) - parietal - rotundum - sphenopalatine - spinosum - stylomastoid - zygomaticofacial - zygomaticotemporal
canals: carotid - condylar - hypoglossal - incisive - pterygoid fissures: orbital (inferior, superior) - petrotympanic external acoustic meatus - internal acoustic meatus - cribriform plate |
