Landmark · Skeletal system
Spine of sphenoid bone
Spina ossis sphenoidei
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Head
- Landmark on
- Sphenoid bone
DescriptionUnreviewed
The great wings, or alae-sphenoids, are two strong processes of bone, which arise from the sides of the body, and are curved upward, lateralward, and backward; the posterior part of each projects as a triangular process which fits into the angle between the squama and the petrous portion of the temporal bone and presents at its apex a downwardly directed process, the spina angularis (sphenoidal spine).
It serves as the origin for the sphenomandibular ligament.
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Names
- Latin
- Spina ossis sphenoidei
- English
- Spine of sphenoid bone
- French
- Epine de l'os sphénoïde
- Spanish
- Espina del hueso esfenoides
- Portuguese
- Espinha do osso esfenoidal