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Temple (anatomy)
Side of the head behind the eyes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The temple, also known as the pterion, is a latch where four skull bones intersect: the frontal, parietal, temporal, and sphenoid.[1] It is located on the side of the head behind the eye between the forehead and the ear. The temporal muscle covers this area and is used during mastication.
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![]() Location of temple | |
![]() Human skull. Temporal bone is orange, and the temple overlies the temporal bone as well as overlying the sphenoid bone. | |
Details | |
Artery | Superficial temporal artery |
Vein | Superficial temporal vein |
Identifiers | |
Latin | tempus |
TA98 | A01.1.00.004 |
TA2 | 103 |
FMA | 46450 |
Anatomical terminology |
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Cladistics classify land vertebrates based on the presence of an upper hole, a lower hole, both, or neither in the cover of dermal bone that formerly covered the temporalis muscle, whose origin is the temple and whose insertion is the jaw.