BonesandLigaments
Plate14

Lateral view
Sphenoidal fontanelle
Frontal bone
Squamous part
Supra-orbital notch (foramen)
Ethmoidal bone
Anterior ethmoidal
foramen
Orbital plate
Lacrimal bone
Nasal bone
Maxilla
Infra-orbital foramen
Zygomatic bone
Zygomaticofacial foramen
Palatine bone
Pyramidal process
Frontal (metopic) suture
Anterior fontanelle
Coronal suture
Parietal bone
Tuber (eminence)
Squamous suture
Posterior fontanelle
Lambdoid suture
Occipital bone
Temporal bone
Squamous part
Petrosquamous fissure
Petrous part
(mastoid process absent)
Tympanic part (bony external
acoustic meatus absent)
Oval (vestibular) window
Round (cochlear) window
Styloid process
Mandibular fossa
Zygomatic process
Sphenoidal
bone
Greater wing
Lateral plate of
pterygoid process
Hamulus of medial
plate of pterygoid
process
Superior view
Frontal bone
Parietal bone
Occipital bone
Mastoid fontanelle
Anterior fontanelle
Coronal suture
Sagittal suture
Lambdoid suture
Posterior fontanelle
SkullofNewborn
See±also±
Plate 6
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