sphenopalatine foramen


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sphenopalatine foramen

[‚sfē·nō′pal·ə‚tēn fə′rā·mən]
(anatomy)
The space between the sphenoid and orbital processes of the palatine bone; it opens into the nasal cavity and gives passage to branches from the pterygopalatine ganglion and the sphenopalatine branch of the maxillary artery.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The feeding vessels to the middle turbinate branch originate in the proximal portion of the posterior lateral nasal artery just after it exits the sphenopalatine foramen. (9) We postulate that the middle turbinate remnant in our patient survived on this branch of the sphenopalatine artery via a pedunculated stalk.
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