Anatomy Paired. One of the four processes of maxilla bone. Also called nasal process. Strong plate pointing up, in and back from body of maxilla; forms part of lateral wall of nasal cavity. Articulates above with frontal bone, and in front with nasal bone. Upper inner surface articulates with ethmoid bone. Interested in taking our

Anatomy Frontal bulge that articulates with frontal process zygoma (cheekbone). Vignette Can felt as bony prominences lateral to edges of mouth, down from the eyes. Interested in taking our award-winning Pocket Anatomy app for a test drive?

Anatomy Course A branch of the external carotid artery. It begins just behind the neck of the mandible, and passes forward just beneath the bone and then through the infratemporal fossa. The artery then enters the pterygopalatine fossa by passing through the pterygomaxillary fissure. Once in the pterygopalatine fossa it splits into several terminal branches.

Anatomy Course The final vein of the pterygoid plexus. It is a short vein and it flows into the retromandibular vein. Eventually it flows into the external carotid vein. Drain Drains the deep structures of the face. Interested in taking our award-winning Pocket Anatomy app for a test drive?

Anatomy A strong band, four centimetres wide by twelve centimetres long. It attaches from the medial epicondyle, below the abductor tubercle, to the subcutaneous surface of the tibia, a hand’s breadth below the joint line. It has deep and superficial fibres with the deep fibres binding with the joint capsule. Functions Provides static stability to

Anatomy At front of top of ramus, separated by mandibular notch from condylar process behind. Laterally, temporalis and masseter attached, medially temporalis and some of buccinator. Interested in taking our award-winning Pocket Anatomy app for a test drive?

Anatomy At back of top of ramus, separated from coronoid process by the mandibular notch. Process consists of neck and head. Articulates with glenoid fossa of temporal bone at the TMJ (tempero-mandibular joint), a synovial joint with an articular disc. Tempero-mandibular ligament attached at lateral extremity of condyle. Vignette TMJ pain common in muscles of

Anatomy Concavely curved upper border of ramus, with coronoid process at front end and condylar at back. Interested in taking our award-winning Pocket Anatomy app for a test drive?

Anatomy The midline symphysis menti marks the fusion of left and right parts of body of mandible. It spreads at its inferior end, forming a forward mental protuberance and on each side, a small mental tubercle. Vignette Chin dimple when incomplete fusion of right and left parts of body of mandible (or of muscle). Inherited

Anatomy The midline symphysis menti marks the fusion of left and right parts of body of mandible. It spreads at its inferior end, forming a forward mental protuberance and on each side, a small mental tubercle. Oblique line ends here. Vignette Chin dimple when there is incomplete fusion of right and left parts of body