Miscellaneous
Spaces
Anterior cranial fossa
Middle cranial fossa
Posterior cranial fossa
Temporal fossa
Infratemporal fossa
Pterygopalatine fossa
Communications
Foramen rotundum
function - transmits the maxillary nerve
Pterygoid canal
function - transmits the nerve of the pterygoid canal
Infraorbital groove
function - transmits the infraorbital nerve artery and vein
Sphenopalatine foramen
function - transmits the sphenopalatine artery and vein, and posterior superior nasal nerve
Pterygomaxillary fissure
function - transmits the posterior superior alveolar nerve, and the infraorbital, sphenopalatine and greater palatine artery and vein
Palatovaginal canal
function - transmits pharyngeal branch of the maxillary nerve
Greater palatine canal
function - transmits the greater palatine nerve artery and vein
Reference points
Bregma
(G. the forepart of the head)
details - junction of coronal and sagittal sutures
Lambda
details - junction of sagittal and lamboidal sutures
Nasion
details - junction of the internasal and frontonasal sutures
Pterion
details - area where parietal, sphenoid, frontal and temporal bones meet
Structures
Zygomatic arch
attachments - masseter muscle
Sutures
Coronal
details - between frontal and parietal bones
Cruciform
details - between palatine processes of maxilla and horizontal processes of the palatine bones
Lambdoid
details - between occipital and parietal bones
Sagittal
details - between parietal bones