Skeletal system
Sphenoid bone
Os sphenoideum
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Head
- Part of
- Bones of cranium
DescriptionUnreviewed
The sphenoid bone is an unpaired bone of the neurocranium.
It is situated in the middle of the skull towards the front, in front of the basilar part of the occipital bone.
The sphenoid bone is one of the seven bones that articulate to form the orbit. Its shape somewhat resembles that of a butterfly or bat with its wings extended.
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Muscle attachments
Muscles that arise here
Parts
Landmarks
- (Middle clinoid process)
- Anterior clinoid process
- Body of sphenoid bone
- Carotid sulcus
- Cerebral surface of greater wing
- Chiasmatic sulcus
- Dorsum sellae
- Foramen ovale
- Foramen rotundum
- Foramen spinosum
- Frontal margin of greater wing
- Greater wing
- Groove of pterygoid hamulus
- Hypophysial fossa
- Infratemporal surface of greater wing
- Lateral pterygoid plate
- Lesser wing
- Limbus of sphenoid
- Maxillary surface of greater wing
- Medial pterygoid plate
- Optic canal
- Orbital surface of greater wing
- Parietal margin of greater wing
- Posterior clinoid process
- Pterygoid canal
- Pterygoid fossa
- Pterygoid hamulus
- Pterygoid notch
- Pterygoid process
- Pterygospinous process
- Scaphoid fossa
- Sella turcica
- Sphenoidal crest
- Sphenoidal lingula
- Sphenoidal yoke
- Spine of sphenoid bone
- Squamosal margin of greater wing
- Sulcus of auditory tube
- Temporal surface of greater wing
- Tuberculum sellae
- Vaginal process of sphenoid bone
- Zygomatic margin of greater wing
Names
- Latin
- Os sphenoideum
- English
- Sphenoid bone
- French
- Os sphénoïde
- Spanish
- Hueso esfenoide
- Portuguese
- Osso esfenóide