Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Human Skull - greater wings (of sphenoid bone)

The probe is pointing to a greater wing of the sphenoid bone from an interior top-down view of the skull. In terms of the "bat" analogy used for the appearance of the sphenoid bone, the greater wings resemble the anatomical "main wings" of the bat/sphenoid bone from an anterior or posterior view. The whole sphenoid bone is not visible here--for example, the pterygoid process is not visible from this angle.

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