facial skeleton
Sign in to saveAlso known as facial bone, cranium faciale, skeleton faciale, facial bones, skeleton faciei
consists of a part of the skull that is derived from the pharyngeal arches
Key facts
- Part of
- Face , skeleton
- Latin
- ossa faciei, ossa facialia
- Mesh
- D005147
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
54,879 papers- Changes in the facial skeleton with aging: implications and clinical applications in facial rejuvenation.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2012
- Maxillofacial Skeleton and Facial Anatomy.Neuroimaging clinics of North America · 2022
- Orthognathic Surgery-LeFort I Osteotomy.Facial plastic surgery : FPS · 2021
- Intra-Individual Aging of the Facial Skeleton.Aesthetic surgery journal · 2021
- Transgender feminization of the facial skeleton.Clinics in plastic surgery · 2007
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- bone
- Part of
- skull
- Has part
- palatine bone
- Image
- Facial skeleton - en.svg
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- Commons category
- Facial skeleton
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C63706
- topic has template
- Template:Facial bones
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Encyclopedic overview
The facial skeleton comprises the facial bones that may attach to build a portion of the skull. The remainder of the skull is the neurocranium.
In human anatomy and development, the facial skeleton is sometimes called the membranous viscerocranium, which comprises the mandible and dermatocranial elements that are not part of the braincase.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “facial skeleton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.