Sphenoid
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| Body | thick part of bone along the midline of the body
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| Greater wings | biggest wings which go furthest from midline
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| Lesser wings | thin wings above the greater wings
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| Pterygoid process | bottom “wings”
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| Optic foramen | passes below lesser wings—very large, circular foramen
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| Sulcus for the optic nerve | in between optic foramen—is where the nerves cross
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| Ethmoidal spine | same as sphenoidal crest thin, crest-like outjutting
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| Anterior clinoid process | look in book (really easy to see)
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| Posterior clinoid process | look in book (really easy to see)
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| Tuberculum sellae (sella turcica) |
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| Hypophyseal fossa | fossa between the anterior and posterior clinoid processes
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| Dorsum sellae |
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| (hypophyseal fossa + dorsum sellae | sella turcica)
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| Superior orbital fissure | large, fissure like opening under the lesser wings—first of the 4 openings in order
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| Foramen rotundum | round foramen—second of the 4 openings in order
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| Foramen ovale | oval foramen—third of the 4 openings in order
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| Foramen spinosum | small, round foramen—fourth of the 4 openings in order
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| Pterygoid canal | at the root of the pterygoid process
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| Lateral pterygoid plate | outside plates of process
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| Medial pterygoid plate | inside plates of process
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| Pterygoid fossa | ditch in between laterial and medial pterygoid plate
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| Pterygoid fissure | fissure in bone leading up to pterygoid canal
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| Hamulus | hooks at bottom of medial pterygoid plates
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| Clivus | slight endocranial hollow that slopes posteriorly from the dorsum sellae toward the sphenooccipital suture
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| Rostrum | continuation of sphenoidal crest (below sphenoidal crest)
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| Sphenoidal crest | same as ethmoidal spine?
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| Orbital surfaces | self explanatory
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