foramen lacerum

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Introduction

An irregular aperature, filled with cartilage in living individuals, located between the apex of the petrous part of the temporal bone, the body of the sphenoid & the basilar part of the occipital bone on either side.

Several structures pass along the margins of the foramen lacerum, but no structures pass through.

More general terms

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999