Back ثقبة وتدية حنكية Arabic Foramen sphénopalatin French Foramen sphenopalatinum Hungarian Forame sfenopalatal LFN Gaura sfenopalatină Romanian
| Sphenopalatine foramen | |
|---|---|
 Medial wall of left orbit. (Sphenopalatine foramen labeled in upper right.) | |
 Left palatine bone. Posterior aspect. Enlarged. (Sphenopalatine foramen labeled in upper right.) | |
| Details | |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | foramen sphenopalatinum |
| TA98 | A02.1.00.097 |
| TA2 | 502 |
| FMA | 53144 |
| Anatomical terms of bone | |
The sphenopalatine foramen is a foramen of the skull that connects the nasal cavity and the pterygopalatine fossa. It gives passage to the sphenopalatine artery, nasopalatine nerve, and the superior nasal nerve (all passing from the pterygopalatine fossa into the nasal cavity).[1]
- ^ Standring, Susan (2020). Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice (42th ed.). New York. p. 690. ISBN 978-0-7020-7707-4. OCLC 1201341621.
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