Temple (anatomy)
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Temple | |
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Details | |
Artery | superficial temporal artery |
Vein | superficial temporal vein |
Identifiers | |
Latin | tempus |
TA98 | A01.1.00.004 |
TA2 | 103 |
FMA | 46450 |
Anatomical terminology |
The temple, also known as the pterion, is a latch where four skull bones fuse: the
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Etymology
The word "temple" as used in anatomy has a separate etymology from the other meaning of word temple, meaning "place of worship". Both come from Latin, but the word for the place of worship comes from templum, whereas the word for the part of the head comes from Vulgar Latin *tempula, modified from tempora, plural form ("both temples") of tempus, a word that refers both to "time" and to this part of the head. Due to its shared spelling (but not shared source) with the word for time, the adjective for both is "temporal" (both "pertaining to time" and "pertaining to the anatomical temple").
The name of the temporalis muscle looks like a form of the Latin word "tempus" meaning "time",[2] but this is a coincidence and the two words do not come from the same root.[3]
See also
- Pterion, the weakest part of the skull
References
- ^ "8 Little Known Facts About the Temple". mentalfloss.com. 2017-11-01. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ISBN 978-0-19-266435-8.
- ^ "Definition of TEMPLE". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
External links
- Media related to Temple (anatomy) at Wikimedia Commons