The mandible Flashcards
What does the medial surface of the ramus of the mandible make up?
most of the lateral wall of the infratemporal fossa.
What are the important features of the mandible?
Ramus
condylar process
body
What is found on the ramus?
mandibular foramen lingula myohyloid groove pterygoid fovea mandibular notch
What does the mandibular foramen leads to?
into the mandibular canal
What is the lingula?
a small projection of bone just anterior to the mandibular foramen,
Where is the myohyloid groove?
extends anteroinferiorly from the mandibular foramen
What is the pterygoid fovea?
a depression in the condylar process
Where is the mandibular notch?
a depression between the condylar and coronoid processes.
What does the condylar process consist of?
head and neck with a pterygoid fovea
What is the pterygoid fovea an attchment for?
lateral pterygoid muscle
What is found on the body?
mental foramen
What is the mental foramen?
termination of the mandibular canal
