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  2. Anterior cranial fossa - Wikipedia

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    The anterior cranial fossa is a depression in the floor of the cranial base which houses the projecting frontal lobes of the brain. It is formed by the orbital plates of the frontal, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid, and the small wings and front part of the body of the sphenoid; it is limited behind by the posterior borders of the small wings of the sphenoid and by the anterior margin of ...

  3. Paranasal sinuses - Wikipedia

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    The ethmoidal sinuses, which are formed from several discrete air cells within the ethmoid bone between the nose and the eyes. They are innervated by the ethmoidal nerves, which branch from the nasociliary nerve of the ophthalmic nerve (CN V1). The sphenoidal sinuses, in the sphenoid bone. They are innervated by the ophthalmic and maxillary ...

  4. Sphenopalatine artery - Wikipedia

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    The sphenopalatine artery is a branch of the maxillary artery which passes through the sphenopalatine foramen into the cavity of the nose, at the back part of the superior meatus. Here it gives off its posterior lateral nasal branches .

  5. Frontal sinus - Wikipedia

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    Frontal sinus. Each frontal sinus is situated between the external and internal plates of the frontal bone. [1] [2] Their average measurements are as follows: height 28 mm, breadth 24 mm, depth 20 mm, creating a space of 6-7 ml. [3]

  6. Nasal meatus - Wikipedia

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    Through the hiatus semilunaris the meatus communicates with a curved passage termed the infundibulum, which communicates in front with the anterior ethmoidal cells and in rather more than fifty percent of skulls is continued upward as the frontonasal duct into the frontal air-sinus; when this continuity fails, the frontonasal duct opens ...

  7. Sphenoethmoidal recess - Wikipedia

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    The sphenoethmoidal recess is a small triangular space superior to the superior nasal meatus of the nasal cavity into which the sphenoidal sinus [1] [2] [3] opens. [4] The sphenoethmoidal recess is situated supero posterior to the superior nasal concha, [3] [2] between the superior nasal concha and the anterior aspect of the body of the sphenoid bone.

  8. Ethmoid sinus - Wikipedia

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    The ethmoid air cells consist of numerous thin-walled cavities in the ethmoidal labyrinth [4] that represent invaginations of the mucous membrane of the nasal wall into the ethmoid bone. [3] They are situated between the superior parts of the nasal cavities and the orbits , and are separated from these cavities by thin bony lamellae.

  9. Head and neck anatomy - Wikipedia

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    the cranium (8 bones: frontal, 2-parietal, occipital, 2-temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid), and; the facial bones (14 bones: 2-zygomatic, 2-maxillary, 2-palatine, 2-nasal, 2-lacrimal, vomer, 2-inferior conchae, mandible). The occipital bone joins with the atlas near the foramen magnum, a large hole at the base of the skull. The atlas joins with the ...