The vitreous membrane (or hyaloid membrane or vitreous cortex) is a layer of collagen separating the vitreous humour from the rest of the eye. At least two parts have been […]
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Human nose
The visible part of the human nose is the protruding part of the face that bears the nostrils. The shape of the nose is determined by the ethmoid bone and […]
Mental protuberance
The symphysis of the external surface of the mandible divides below and encloses a triangular eminence the mental protuberance the base of which is depressed in the center but raised […]
Sublingual caruncle
The sublingual caruncle is a site on either side of the frenulum linguae on the sublingual surface of the tongue. There it denotes the site at which the submandibular gland […]
Isthmus of the fauces
The isthmus of the fauces or the oropharyngeal isthmus is a part of the oropharynx directly behind the mouth cavity bounded superiorly by the soft palate laterally by the palatoglossal […]
Superior cerebellar veins
The superior cerebellar veins pass partly forward and medialward across the superior vermis to end in the straight sinus and the internal cerebral veins partly lateralward to the transverse and […]
Buccopharyngeal fascia
The buccopharyngeal fascia is a fascia in the head.Parallel to the carotid sheath and along its medial aspect the prevertebral fascia gives off a thin lamina the buccopharyngeal fascia which […]
Middle clinoid process
The anterior boundary of the sella turcica is completed by two small eminences one on either side called the middle clinoid processes.
Chiasmatic groove
The superior surface of the body of the sphenoid bone is bounded behind by a ridge which forms the anterior border of a narrow transverse groove the chiasmatic groove (optic […]
Medial eminence of floor of fourth ventricle
In the human brain the rhomboid fossa is divided into symmetrical halves by a median sulcus which reaches from the upper to the lower angles of the fossa and is […]