The mandibular foramen is an opening on the internal surface of the ramus of the mandible. It allows for divisions of the mandibular nerve and blood vessels...

The mental foramen is one of two foramina (openings) located on the anterior surface of the mandible. It is part of the mandibular canal. It transmits...

and the mandibular foramen on medial aspect of ramus, into which the mandibular nerve enters to become the inferior alveolar nerve. The mandibular canal...

masseter muscle. On the inside at the center there is an oblique mandibular foramen, for the entrance of the inferior alveolar vessels and nerve. The...

The meningeal branch of the mandibular nerve (also known as the nervus spinosus) is a sensory branch of the mandibular nerve (CN V3) that enters the middle...

ganglion and through the foramen ovale to unite with the sensory root just outside the skull.[better source needed] The mandibular nerve immediately passes...

transmits the mandibular nerve, a branch of the trigeminal nerve. The foramen ovale is an opening in the greater wing of the sphenoid bone. The foramen ovale...

access to the mandibular foramen. The sphenomandibular ligament, because of its attachment to the lingula, overlaps the opening of the foramen. It is a vestige...

and the meningeal branch of the mandibular nerve (sometimes it passes through the foramen ovale instead). The foramen spinosum is often used as a landmark...

temporal squama, containing the foramen ovale, which transmits the mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve, and the foramen spinosum, which transmits the...