Temporal line

Temporal line
File:Sobo 1909 39 - temporal lines.png Side view of skull. Temporal lines shown in red.
File:Gunshot skull - temporal lines.png Side view of the skull. Temporal lines labeled at top right.
Details
Latin	linea temporalis
Identifiers
Dorlands /Elsevier	l_10/12495892
TA
TH	{{#property:P1694}}
TE	{{#property:P1693}}
FMA	{{#property:P1402}}
Anatomical terms of bone [[[d:|edit on Wikidata]]]

Crossing the middle of the parietal bone in an arched direction are two curved lines, the superior and inferior temporal lines; the former gives attachment to the temporal fascia, and the latter indicates the upper limit of the muscular origin of the Temporal muscle.

See also

• Temporal fossa

Additional images

• Gray188 - Temporal lines.png

  Side view of skull. Temporal lines shown in yellow.

• 186 GD-Preis 5517 cropped - temporal line.png

  Side view of head of adult male. Temporal line depicted.

• Temporal line - animation01.gif

  Temporal line shown in red. (Temporal line is blurred at posterior part, so is not coloured)

• 2007 Arnold Schwarzenegger - cropped - temporal line.png

  Front view of head of adult male. Temporal line depicted.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

• #17 and #18 (source here)
• Anatomy diagram: 34256.000-2 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier