Squamosal suture

Squamosal suture
Side view of the skull. Squamosal suture in red.
Side view of the skull. Squamosal suture highlighted.
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Identifiers
Latin	sutura squamosa cranii
TA	A03.1.02.010 A03.0.00.010
FMA	52946
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

The squamosal suture, or squamous suture, arches backward from the pterion and connects the temporal squama with the lower border of the parietal bone: this suture is continuous behind with the short, nearly horizontal parietomastoid suture, which unites the mastoid process of the temporal with the region of the mastoid angle of the parietal bone.

Gallery

Animation. Left parietal bone removed. Squamosal sutures shown in red.
Parietal bones (above) and temporal bones (below).
Side view of the skull. Squamosal suture indicated by the black arrows.
Close up of left temporal bone. Squamosal suture indicated by the yellow arrows.

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Anatomy diagram: 34256.000-2 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier

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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