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Uncinate process of the ethmoid bone 



Processus uncinatus ossis ethmoidalis | 

 Inferior wall of the orbit 

 Paries inferior orbitae 



Orifice of the maxillary sinus 



Hiatus maxillaris 



Orbital process of the palate bone 



Processus orbitalis ossis palatini 



Sphenomaxillary fossa 



' Fossa pterygopalatina 



Maxillary process of the palate bone 



Processus nasalis ossis palatini 



fuberosity of the superior maxillary bone 



" Tuber maxillare 



Infra orbital foramen 



Foramen infra-orbitale 



Maxillary process of the inferior turbinate 



bone 



Processus maxillaris conchae nasalis 

 Maxillary sinus, or antrum of Highmore 



Body of the superior maxillary bone 



Corpus maxillse 



Alveolar process 



FIG. 216. THE LEFT MAXILLARY SINUS, OR ANTRUM OF HIGHMORE, SHOWN BY THE REMOVAL 

 OF THE EXTERNAL WALL OF THE BODY OF THE SUPERIOR MAXILLARY BONE AND THE 

 MALAR BONE. SEEN FROM THE LEFT SIDE. 



Lesser wing Ala parva 



Orbital plate of the frontal bone 

 Pars orbitalis ossis frontalis 



Orbital plate, os planum, or lamina 

 papyracea, of the ethmoid bone 



Lamina papyracea 



Palato-ethmoidal suture 



Sutura palato-ethmoidalis 



Orbital process of the palate bone 

 Processus orbitalis ossis palatini 

 Orbital surface of the superior maxillary 

 bone Facies orbitalis maxillae 

 Sphenopalatine foramen 

 Foramen sphenopalatinum 

 Infra orbital groove .... 

 Sulcus infra-orbitalis 

 Sphenomaxillary fossa "" 

 Fossa pterygopalatina 

 Vertical plate of the palate bone 

 Pars perpendicularis ossis palatini 

 Posterior palatine or palatomaxillary 

 canal Canalis pterygopaiatinus 

 Posterior dental canal 

 Foramen alveolare (posterius) 



Zygomatic surface of the superior maxillary bone/' 



Facies infratemporalis maxillae 



Optic foramen 



Foramen opticum 



Spheno-ethmoidal suture 



/'Sutura spheno-ethmoidalis 

 / . Foramen rotundum 



'' Foramen rotundum 



/'Sphenpidal canaliculus 1 

 Canaliculus sphenoidalis 

 _ Lingula of the sphenoid bone 

 '''Lingula sphenoidalis 



,Vidian or pterygoid canal 

 Canalis pterygoideus (Vidii) 



Sphenomaxillary surface 

 Facies sphenomaxillaris 



- Pterygomaxillary fissure 



Fissura pterygomaxillaris 



External pterygoid plate 



Lamina lateralis processus pterygoidei 



~ Pyramidal process, or tuberosity, of the palate bone 



Processus pyramidalis 



Hamular process 



Hamulus pterygoideus 



1 See note to p. 92. 



FIG. 217. -THE LEFT SPHENOMAXILLARY FOSSA, SHOWN BY REMOVAL OF THE MALAR BONE, 

 THE TEMPORAL BONE, AND THE GREAT WING OF THE SPHENOID BONE. SEEN FROM 

 THE LEFT SIDE. 



A sound has been passed through the Vidian canal, and another through the *sphenoi<lal canaliculus 1 



(exceptionally large in this specimen). 



Sinus maxillaris Maxillary sinus, or antrum of Highmore. Fossa pterygopalatina Spheno- 

 maxillary fossa. 



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