Occipito-mastoid suture

Occipito-mastoid suture
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Occipitomastoid suture

Side view of the skull. (Occipitomastoid suture identified with arrow.)

Base of skull. Inferior surface.
Latin	sutura occipitomastoidea
Gray's	subject #46 183

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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v • d • e Bones of head and neck: cranial sutures, fontanelles, and related regions

Cranial sutures	Cranial: frontoethmoidal – frontal or metopic (frontal/frontal) – coronal (frontal/parietal) – occipitomastoid (occipital/temporal) – lambdoid (parietal/temporal) – sagittal (parietal/parietal) – sphenoethmoidal – sphenofrontal – sphenoparietal – sphenosquamosal (sphenoid/temporal) – sphenopetrosal (sphenoid/temporal) – squamosal (temporal/parietal) – petrosquamous (temporal/temporal) Facial: palatomaxillary suture Cranial–facial: sphenozygomatic – zygomaticotemporal – zygomaticofrontal

Fontanelles	anterior – posterior – sphenoidal – mastoid

Foramina of multiple bones	inferior orbital fissure – foramen lacerum – jugular foramen – nasolacrimal canal

Fossae	anterior cranial fossa – middle cranial fossa – posterior cranial fossa – cranial cavity

Other compound structures	Cranial: asterion – pterion – calvaria – stephanion – bregma – lambda Facial: nasion Cranial–facial: dacryon – zygomatic arch – temporal fossa – infratemporal fossa – pterygomaxillary fissure – pterygopalatine fossa

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