Sphenofrontal suture

Sphenofrontal suture
Sphenofrontal suture (shown in red).
Side view of the skull. (Sphenofrontal suture visible at center, between sphenoid bone, which is colored yellow in the diagram, and the frontal bone, which is colored in gray, and is at the upper left.).
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Latin	Sutura sphenofrontalis
TA	A03.1.02.006
FMA	52938
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The Sphenofrontal suture is the cranial suture between the sphenoid bone and the frontal bone.

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This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Fibrous joints of the human skull

Syndesmosis	Pterygospinous ligament Stylohyoid ligament

Sutures	Involving the frontal bone frontoethmoidal suture frontal suture coronal suture occipitomastoid lambdoid sagittal Involving the sphenoid bone sphenoethmoidal with frontal bone with parietal bone sphenosquamosal Involving the Petrous part of the temporal bone sphenopetrosal petrosquamous squamosal Facial: palatomaxillary suture Involving the zygomatic process with sphenoid bone with temporal bone with frontal bone

Mouth	Gomphosis Periodontal fiber Periodontium Dental alveolus Gingiva Cementum

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