infratemporal fossa

Behind it is concave, and forms part of the infratemporal fossa.

The nerve continues through the petrotympanic fissure, after which it emerges from the skull into the infratemporal fossa.

Local anesthesia (dental injections into the infratemporal fossa)

The infratemporal fossa is an irregularly shaped cavity, situated below and medial to the zygomatic arch.

The floor is separated from the lateral wall by inferior orbital fissure, which connects the orbit to pterygopalatine and infratemporal fossa.

The infratemporal surface is convex, directed backward and lateralward, and forms part of the infratemporal fossa.

It travels across the floor of the middle cranial fossa, then exits the skull via foramen ovale to reach the infratemporal fossa.

It communicates with the nasal and oral cavities, infratemporal fossa, orbit, pharynx, and middle cranial fossa through eight foramina.

The contents of the fissure include communications of cranial nerves VII and IX to the infratemporal fossa.

Tumor invades anterior orbital contents, skin of cheek, pterygoid plates, infratemporal fossa, cribriform plate, or sphenoid or frontal sinuses.

The otic ganglion is a small, oval shaped, flattened parasympathetic ganglion of a reddish-gray color, located immediately below the foramen ovale in the infratemporal fossa.

Shahinian HK, Dornier C, Fisch U: Parapharyngeal space tumors: The infratemporal fossa approach.

After branching off the maxillary artery in the infratemporal fossa, it runs through the foramen spinosum to supply the dura mater (the outermost meninges) and the calvaria.

Shahinian HK, Suh RH, Jarrahy R: Combined infratemporal fossa and transfacial approach to excising massive tumors.

Chorda tympani provides taste sensation to the anterior 2/3 of the tongue by joining with the lingual nerve-a branch of the mandibular nerve (V3)-in the infratemporal fossa.

Immediately in the infratemporal fossa beneath the base of the skull, the nerve gives off two branches from its medial side: a recurrent branch (nervus spinosus) and the nerve to the medial pterygoid muscle.

It is situated at the upper and lateral part of the face and forms the prominence of the cheek, part of the lateral wall and floor of the orbit, and parts of the temporal and infratemporal fossa.

Mandibular nerve which is the third branch of the trigeminal nerve (CN V), also known as the "inferior maxillary nerve" or nervus mandibularis, enters infratemporal fossa from middle cranial fossa through foramen ovale.