Incisive canals

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Bone: Incisive canals

The bony palate and alveolar arch. (Incisive canals labeled at upper left.)
Latin	canales incisivi
Gray's	subject #38 162
Dorlands/Elsevier	c_04/12208639

In the opening of the incisive foramen, the orifices of two lateral canals are visible; they are named the incisive canals or foramina of Stenson.

Through each of them passes the terminal branch of the descending palatine artery and the nasopalatine nerve.

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Left maxilla. Nasal surface.

Base of skull. Inferior surface.

Roof, floor, and lateral wall of left nasal cavity.

The sphenopalatine ganglion and its branches.

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Dictionary at eMedicine Incisive+canal

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Bones of head and neck: the face

maxilla: Body of maxilla - Maxillary sinus

surfaces of body Anterior (Incisive fossa, Canine fossa, Infraorbital foramen, Anterior nasal spine) - Infratemporal (Alveolar canals, Maxillary tuberosity) - Orbital (Infraorbital groove, Infraorbital canal) - Nasal (Pterygopalatine canal)
processes Zygomatic process - Frontal process (Agger nasi, Anterior lacrimal crest) - Alveolar process - Palatine process (Incisive foramen, Incisive canals, Foramina of Scarpa, Premaxilla, Anterior nasal spine)