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... > Tissues > Connective Tissue > Bone and Bones > Skull > Skull Base > Infratemporal Fossa
... > Musculoskeletal System > Skeleton > Bone and Bones > Skull > Skull Base > Infratemporal Fossa
Body Regions > Head > Skull Base > Infratemporal Fossa

Preferred term

Infratemporal Fossa  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • The compartment that lies posterior to the MAXILLA and inferior to the side wall of the SKULL deep to the ramus of the MANDIBLE. It contains several FACIAL NERVES and the CAROTID ARTERIES and the JUGULAR VEINS.

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-JLSH42HG-F

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