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

A slender inferior projection of temporal bone. Lies anterior to the mastoid process. Gives attachment to muscles and ligaments.

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Styloid process: 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.

Styloid process

Temporal bone landmarks

Styloid process

STRUCTURE & FUNCTION

Understand what you see.

A slender inferior projection of temporal bone.

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01 / IDENTIFICATION

How to recognise it.

  1. A slender inferior projection of temporal bone
  2. Lies anterior to the mastoid process
  3. Gives attachment to muscles and ligaments
02 / KEY STRUCTURES

Point them out.

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Related features & study points (4)

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

  • Styloglossus
  • Stylohyoid
  • Stylopharyngeus
  • Stylohyoid ligament
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 styloid process and justify your identification.
SUGGESTED ANSWER

A slender inferior projection of temporal bone. Lies anterior to the mastoid process. Gives attachment to muscles and ligaments.

02Name the three muscles attached to it.
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Styloglossus, stylohyoid and stylopharyngeus.

03Which of these is supplied by glossopharyngeal nerve?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Stylopharyngeus is supplied by IX; the three muscles do not share one motor nerve.

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