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It is also called the metopic suture, [1] [2] although this term may also refer specifically to a persistent frontal suture. [ 3 ] If the suture is not present at birth because both frontal bones have fused ( craniosynostosis ), it will cause a keel-shaped deformity of the skull called trigonocephaly .
At birth the frontal bone contains two portions, separated by the metopic (frontal) suture. Metopism is the condition of having a persistent metopic suture. The metopic suture is typically obliterated, except at its lower part, by the eighth year, but infrequently persists throughout life. [6] There is no single proven cause of metopism.
This foramen varies in size in different subjects, and is frequently impervious; when open, it transmits a vein from the nose to the superior sagittal sinus. On either side of the middle line the bone presents depressions for the convolutions of the brain, and numerous small furrows for the anterior branches of the middle meningeal vessels.
The middle meningeal artery (Latin: arteria meningea media) is typically the third branch of the first portion of the maxillary artery.After branching off the maxillary artery in the infratemporal fossa, it runs through the foramen spinosum to supply the dura mater (the outer meningeal layer) and the calvaria.
The remains of a woman found dead on a reservation in southwestern South Dakota in January has been identified as Michelle Elbow Shield, a Sioux woman who went missing more than a year ago.
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In human anatomy, the cerebral veins are blood vessels in the cerebral circulation which drain blood from the cerebrum of the human brain. They are divisible into external ( superficial cerebral veins ) and internal ( internal cerebral veins ) groups according to the outer or inner parts of the hemispheres they drain into.