Supraorbital foramen

Bone: Supraorbital foramen
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The skull from the front. ("Supraorbital foramen" is top caption for right side white-box.)
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Frontal bone. Outer surface. ("Supraorbital notch or foramen" labeled at lower right arch.)
Latin	foramen supraorbitale
Gray's	subject #46 186
MeSH
Dorlands/Elsevier	f_12/12373739

The supraorbital foramen is a bony elongated path located above the orbit (eye socket) and under the forehead. The supraorbital foramen lies directly under the eyebrow.

The supraorbital foramen arches transversely below the superciliary arches and is the upper part of the margin of the orbit, thin and prominent in its lateral two-thirds, rounded in its medial third, and presenting, at the junction of these two portions, the supraorbital notch or foramen for the supraorbital nerve and vessels (supraorbital artery and supraorbital vein.)

See also

• Foramina of skull
• Frontal bone

Additional images

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Frontal bone. Inner surface.

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Side view of head, showing surface relations of bones.

External links

• SUNY Figs 22:02-01 (from a distance)
• SUNY Labs 29:os-0504 (close up)
• Dictionary at eMedicine Supraorbital+foramen
• Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, at Elsevier 34256.000-1

• Diagram at upstate.edu
• Diagram at csuchico.edu

This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained herein may be outdated. Please edit the article if this is the case, and feel free to remove this notice when it is no longer relevant.

Human cranial bones

occipital bone: Foramen magnum  • Squama occipitalis (Inion  • Nuchal lines  • Planum occipitale  • Planum nuchale  • Cruciform eminence  • Internal occipital protuberance  • Sagittal sulcus  • Internal occipital crest) Lateral parts (Hypoglossal canal  • Condyloid fossa  • Condyloid canal  • Jugular process  • Jugular tubercle)  • Basilar part (Pharyngeal tubercle) parietal bone: Parietal eminence  • Temporal line  • Parietal foramen frontal bone: Squama frontalis (Frontal suture  • Frontal eminence  • Superciliary arches  • Glabella  • Supraorbital foramen  • Zygomatic process  • Sagittal sulcus  • Frontal crest  • Foramen cecum) Pars orbitalis (Frontal sinus  • Frontonasal duct) temporal bone: Squama temporalis (Articular tubercle  • Suprameatal triangle  • Mandibular fossa  • Petrotympanic fissure)  • Mastoid portion (Mastoid foramen Mastoid process  • Mastoid notch  • Occipital groove  • Sigmoid sulcus  • Mastoid antrum) Petrous portion (Hiatus of the facial canal  • Internal auditory meatus  • Subarcuate fossa  • Carotid canal  • Aqueduct of cochlea  • Jugular fossa  • Inferior tympanic canaliculus  • Mastoid canaliculus  • Styloid process  • Stylomastoid foramen  • Petrosquamous suture)  • Tympanic part (Suprameatal spine)  • Zygomatic process sphenoid bone: Sphenoidal sinuses  • Ethmoidal spine  • Optic foramen  • Sella turcica  • Fossa hypophyseos  • Dorsum sellae  • Posterior clinoid processes  • Carotid groove  • Lingula sphenoidalis  • Sphenoidal conchæ  • Great wings (Spina angularis  • Foramen rotundum  • Foramen ovale  • Foramen Vesalii  • Foramen spinosum  • Infratemporal crest  • Sulcus tubae auditivae  • Small wings  • Superior orbital fissure  • Anterior clinoid process  • Optic foramen) Pterygoid processes (Pterygoid fossa  • Scaphoid fossa  • Lateral pterygoid plate  • Medial pterygoid plate  • Pterygoid hamulus  • Sphenoidal conchæ  • Sphenoidal sinuses) ethmoid bone: Cribriform plate  • Crista galli  • Perpendicular plate  • Labyrinth  • Ethmoid sinus  • Uncinate process  • Middle nasal concha  • Superior meatus  • Superior nasal concha  • Middle meatus