The mastoid foramen is a hole in the posterior border of the temporal bone. It transmits an emissary vein between the sigmoid sinus and the suboccipital...

The stylomastoid foramen is a foramen between the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone of the skull. It is the termination of the facial...

muscles. It is perforated by numerous foramina (holes); for example, the mastoid foramen is situated near the posterior border and transmits a vein to the transverse...

part of the transverse sinus; in it may be seen the opening of the mastoid foramen. This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 142...

in front of the foramen magnum and directed towards the pharynx. The squamous part is the curved, expanded plate behind the foramen magnum and is the...

sinus Foramen cecum Optic foramen Foramen lacerum Foramen rotundum Foramen magnum Foramen ovale Jugular foramen Internal auditory meatus Mastoid foramen Sphenoidal...

occipital artery through jugular or mastoid foramen) D. meningeal arteries (from vertebral artery through foramen magnum) The two layers of dura mater...

branch, which enters the skull through the mastoid foramen and supplies the dura mater, the diploë, and the mastoid cells; this latter branch sometimes arises...

cranial fossa through either the foramen spinosum or foramen ovale to innervate the meninges of this fossa as well as the mastoid air cells. It divides into...

the occipital bone and the mastoid portion of the temporal bone. It is continuous with the lambdoidal suture. Jugular foramen Animation. Occipitomastoid...