Incisive foramen

Incisive foramen

The bony palate and alveolar arch.
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Identifiers
Latin fossa incisiva
Dorlands
/Elsevier
f_12/12373096
TA A02.1.00.060
FMA 57737

Anatomical terms of bone

In the human mouth, the incisive foramen, also called anterior palatine foramen, or nasopalatine foramen is a funnel-shaped opening in the bone of the oral hard palate immediately behind the incisor teeth where blood vessels and nerves pass. The incisive foramen is continuous with the incisive canal, this foramen or group of foramina is located behind the central incisor teeth in the incisive fossa of the maxilla.

The incisive foramen receives the nasopalatine nerves from the floor of the nasal cavity along with the sphenopalatine artery supplying the mucous membrane covering the hard palate of the mouth.

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This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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