Temporal line
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Temporal line | |
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Left parietal bone. Outer surface. | |
Side view of the skull. | |
Latin | linea temporalis |
Gray's | subject #32 134 |
Dorlands/Elsevier | l_10/12495892 |
Crossing the middle of the parietal bone in an arched direction are two curved lines, the superior and inferior temporal lines; the former gives attachment to the temporal fascia, and the latter indicates the upper limit of the muscular origin of the Temporalis.
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