Landmark · Skeletal system
Ethmoidal notch
Incisura ethmoidea
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Head
- Landmark on
- Frontal bone
DescriptionUnreviewed
The ethmoidal notch separates the two orbital plates; it is quadrilateral, and filled, in the articulated skull, by the cribriform plate of the ethmoid. The margins of the notch present several half-cells which, when united with corresponding half-cells on the upper surface of the ethmoid, complete the ethmoidal sinuses.
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Names
- Latin
- Incisura ethmoidea
- English
- Ethmoidal notch
- French
- Incisure ethmoïdale
- Spanish
- Incisura etmoidal
- Portuguese
- Entalhe etmoidal