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temporal bone
bones situated at the sides and base of the skull, and lateral to the temporal lobes of the cerebrum
Details
- Instance of
- class of anatomical entity
- Subclass of
- pneumatized bone, human bone, particular anatomical entity, irregular bone
- Part of
- skull, neurocranium, facial skeleton
- Has parts
- petrous part of the temporal bone, tympanic part of the temporal bone, squamous part of temporal bone, petrotympanic fissure, petrosquamous suture, tympanosquamous fissure, tympanomastoid fissure
- anatomical location
- neurocranium
- connects with
- sphenoid bone, occipital bone, zygomatic bone, parietal bone, mandible
- described by source
- Gray's Anatomy (20th edition), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
- studied by
- neurosurgery, speech-language pathology
- topic's main category
- Category:Temporal bone
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