Temporal fossa
The temporal fossa ( temporal fossa ) is located in the area of the temples to the side of the eye socket . It is a slightly sunken bone plate from the temporal bone scale ( Squama ossis temporalis ) and the large wing ( Ala major ) of the sphenoid bone ( Os sphenoidale ). It is bounded caudally by the zygomatic arch ( zygomatic arch ) and above by the lower and upper temporal line ( linea temporalis inferior et superior ). The ventral border is the zygomatic bone ( Os zygomaticum ). Below it lies the infratemporal fossa .
The temporalis muscle , the strongest sphincter muscle of the jaw and one of the masticatory muscles, is located in the fossa . The nervus auriculotemporalis , the nervus zygomaticotemporalis , the arteria temporalis superficialis and the arteriae temporales profundae run through the cranial fossa .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jesko Priewe, Daniel Tümmers: Das Erste . Springer Science & Business Media, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-32878-0 , p. 470 ( google.com ).