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Occipitomastoid suture

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Occipitomastoid suture
Side view of the skull. (Occipitomastoid suture identified with arrow.)
Latin sutura occipitomastoidea
Gray's subject #46 183
Dorlands/Elsevier s_30/12774104

The occipitomastoid suture is the cranial suture between the occipital bone and the mastoid portion of the temporal bone.

It is continuous with the lambdoidal suture.

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Cranial sutures, Fontanelles, and related regions

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cranial sutures: Coronal | Lambdoid | Occipitomastoid | Parietomastoid | Sphenofrontal | Sphenoparietal | Sphenosquamosal | Sphenozygomatic |Squamosal | Zygomaticotemporal | Zygomaticofrontal | Frontal/Metopic | Sagittal | Frontoethmoidal | Petrosquamous | Sphenoethmoidal | Sphenopetrosal

fontanelles: Anterior fontanelle | Posterior fontanelle

Asterion | Nasion | Pterion | Dacryon | Inferior orbital fissure | Foramen lacerum | Jugular foramen


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