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SPHENOTIC FORAMEN

An irregular aperture, filled with cartilage (basilar cartilage) in the living, situated between the apex of the petrous part of the temporal bone, the body of the sphenoid, and the basilar part of the occipital bones. Different structures pass along the margins of the foramen in a almost horizontal direction but no structures pass through vertically. Synonym: foramen lacerum middle, lacerated foramen, sphenotic foramen.
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