Landmark · Skeletal system
Scaphoid fossa
Fossa scaphoidea
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Head
- Landmark on
- Sphenoid bone
DescriptionUnreviewed
In the pterygoid processes of the sphenoid, above the pterygoid fossa is a small, oval, shallow depression, the scaphoid fossa, which gives origin to the Tensor veli palatini. It is not the same as and has to be distinguished from the scaphoid fossa of the external ear or pinna.
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Names
- Latin
- Fossa scaphoidea
- English
- Scaphoid fossa
- French
- Fosse scaphoïde
- Spanish
- Fosa escafoidea
- Portuguese
- Fossa escafóide