Landmark · Skeletal system
(Trochlear spine)
(Spina trochlearis)
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Head
- Landmark on
- Frontal bone
DescriptionUnreviewed
The inferior surface of each orbital plate is smooth and concave, and presents, laterally, under cover of the zygomatic process, a shallow depression, the lacrimal fossa, for the lacrimal gland; near the nasal part is a depression, the fovea trochlearis, or occasionally a small trochlear spine, for the attachment of the cartilaginous pulley of the obliquus oculi superior.
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Names
- Latin
- (Spina trochlearis)
- English
- (Trochlear spine)
- French
- (Epine trochéaire)
- Spanish
- (Espina troclear)
- Portuguese
- (Coluna troclear)