2024年1月3日 · The sphenoid bone is one of the eight bones that make up the cranium – the superior aspect of the skull that encloses and protects the brain. Its name is derived from the Greek ‘sphenoeides’, to mean wedge-shaped.

It is situated in the middle of the skull towards the front, in front of the basilar part of the occipital bone. The sphenoid bone is one of the seven bones that articulate to form the orbit. Its shape somewhat resembles that of a butterfly, bat or wasp with its wings extended.

2022年4月18日 · The sphenoid is one of the eight cranial bones that make up the skull. It is a large, complex, unpaired bone, deriving its name from Greek’ sphenoeides’, meaning wedge-shaped. The bone forms a significant portion of the middle part of the skull base and the floor of the middle cranial fossa.

2023年10月30日 · The sphenoid bone is one of the most complex bones of the human body. Due to its shape, it is also referred to as the 'wasp bone'. It makes up most of the middle part of the base of the skull and contributes to the floor of the middle cranial fossa of the skull.

2023年10月6日 · The sphenoid bone is one of the seven bones that make up the orbit (the space that holds the eyeball), and helps make up the floor of the middle cranial fossa, the butterfly-shaped depression at the base of the skull that houses the temporal lobes of the cerebellum.

2023年7月24日 · The sphenoid is just one of the twenty-two bones that form the skull and essentially helps to connect the neurocranium to the facial skeleton. It is a single bone in the midline of the cranial cavity situated posterior to the frontal bone but anterior to the occipital.

2022年11月7日 · Sphenoid bone is a butterfly-shaped cranial bone that is located in the middle of the skull between the frontal and temporal bones.

The sphenoid bone called wedge-shaped bone, lies at the middle part of the base of the skull. Sphenoid bone is called the keystone of the cranial floor because it articulates with all the other cranial bones, holding them together. View the floor of the cranium superiorly (Figure 1) and note the sphenoid articulations.

2020年8月14日 · It forms part of the orbits (eye sockets), paranasal sinuses, and cranium; it articulates (joins) with twelve other cranial or craniofacial bones. The location of the sphenoid bone lies behind the top of the nasal cavity and stretches from the left side of the skull to the right.

2024年5月11日 · The sphenoid bone is a large, complex, unpaired bone forming the central parts of the anterior and central skull base. Parts of the sphenoid bone include: The sphenoid bone articulates with twelve bones: The sphenoid bone includes: The lateral craniopharyngeal canal, located in the lateral sphenoid recess, medial to foramen rotundum.