Cranial Base: Inferior View
Anatomy
Maxillary bone: Incisive fossa, Palatine process, Intermaxillary
suture, Zygomatic process. Zygomatic bone, Frontal bone, Sphenoid bone ( Pterygoid
process, Hamulus, Medial plate, Pterygoid
fossa, Lateral plate, Scaphoid fossa, Greater wing, Foramen ovale, Foramen
spinosum, Spine). Temporal bone ( Zygomatic
process, Articular tubercle, Mandibular fossa, Styloid
process, Petrotympanic fissure, Carotid canal (external opening), Inferior
tympanic canaliculus, External
acoustic meatus, Mastoid
canaliculus, Mastoid process, Stylomastoid foramen, Petrous part, Mastoid notch, Groove for
occipital artery, Jugular fossa, (jugular foramen in its depth), Mastoid
foramen.
Parietal bone, Occipital bone (Hypoglossal canal, Occipital
condyle, Condylar canal and fossa, Basilar part, Pharyngeal
tubercle, Foramen magnum, Inferior nuchal line, External
occipital crest, Superior
nuchal line, External occipital protuberance.
