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Foramen spinosum: magnified reference view with a numbered learning marker. The complete original plate is available in the next view.
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Foramen spinosum

Small opening posterolateral to foramen ovale. Lies in the greater wing near the sphenoid spine. Leads to middle meningeal vascular grooves.

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Foramen spinosum: magnified reference view with a numbered learning marker. The complete original plate is available in the next view.

Image: OpenStax College / university open textbook · Source / original · CC BY 4.0

Numbered markers and focused views are Mediveerse learning overlays; the original reference is linked above.

Foramen spinosum

Foramina & canals

Foramen spinosum

STRUCTURE & FUNCTION

Understand what you see.

Small opening posterolateral to foramen ovale.

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01 / IDENTIFICATION

How to recognise it.

  1. Small opening posterolateral to foramen ovale
  2. Lies in the greater wing near the sphenoid spine
  3. Leads to middle meningeal vascular grooves
02 / KEY STRUCTURES

Point them out.

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Related features & study points (2)

Additional relations, attachments or microscopic details to revise alongside this plate. These are separate from its numbered image landmarks.

  • Sphenoid spine
  • Middle meningeal vessels
03 / VIVA PRACTICE

Think first. Then reveal.

Say your answer aloud before opening the suggested response.

Examiner-style prompts: identify the structure, explain its relations, then answer the applied follow-up. These are revision questions, not authenticated past papers.

01Identify foramen spinosum and justify your identification.
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Small opening posterolateral to foramen ovale. Lies in the greater wing near the sphenoid spine. Leads to middle meningeal vascular grooves.

02What passes through it?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Middle meningeal artery and veins and the meningeal branch of V3.

03From which artery does the middle meningeal artery usually arise?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

The maxillary artery, a terminal branch of the external carotid artery.

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