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

Overlapping junction of parietal and squamous temporal bones. Arches across the lateral skull. Lies superior to the external acoustic meatus.

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Squamous suture: 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.

Squamous suture

Sutures & surface landmarks

Squamous suture

STRUCTURE & FUNCTION

Understand what you see.

Overlapping junction of parietal and squamous temporal bones.

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01 / IDENTIFICATION

How to recognise it.

  1. Overlapping junction of parietal and squamous temporal bones
  2. Arches across the lateral skull
  3. Lies superior to the external acoustic meatus
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.

  • Squamous temporal bone
  • Lateral cranial vault
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 squamous suture and justify your identification.
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Overlapping junction of parietal and squamous temporal bones. Arches across the lateral skull. Lies superior to the external acoustic meatus.

02Which bones does it join?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Parietal and temporal bones.

03How is it different from the coronal suture?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Coronal joins frontal to parietal bones; squamous joins parietal to temporal bone.

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