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styloid process of temporal bone
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- UBERON:0003960
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- processus styloideus ossis temporalis
- temporal styloid process
- Definition
- slender needle-like pointed projection that runs downward and slightly forward from the base of the inferior surface of the petrous portion of the temporal bone where it joins the tympanic portion; it gives attachment to the styloglossus, stylohyoid, and stylopharyngeus muscles and the stylohyoid and stylomandibular ligaments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_styloid_process
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