The "polymorphous" history of a polymorphous skull bone: the sphenoid.

Abstract:

:For a long time, because of its location at the skull base level, the sphenoid bone was rather mysterious as it was too difficult for anatomists to reach and to elucidate its true configuration. The configuration of the sphenoid bone led to confusion regarding its sutures with the other skull bones, its shape, its detailed anatomy, and the vascular and nervous structures that cross it. This article takes the reader on a journey through time and space, charting the evolution of anatomists' comprehension of sphenoid bone morphology from antiquity to its conception as a bone structure in the eighteenth century, and ranging from ancient Greece to modern Italy and France. The journey illustrates that many anatomists have attempted to name and to best describe the structural elements of this polymorphous bone.

journal_name

Anat Sci Int

authors

Costea C,Turliuc S,Cucu A,Dumitrescu G,Carauleanu A,Buzduga C,Sava A,Costache I,Turliuc D

doi

10.1007/s12565-017-0399-5

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-01-01 00:00:00

pages

14-22

issue

1

eissn

1447-6959

issn

1447-073X

pii

10.1007/s12565-017-0399-5

journal_volume

93

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