Bone: Temporal line
Left parietal bone. Outer surface.
Side view of the skull. (Temporal lines are slightly above tip of arrow.)
Latin	linea temporalis
Gray's	subject #32 134

Crossing the middle of the parietal bone in an arched direction are two curved lines, the superior and inferior temporal lines; the former gives attachment to the temporal fascia, and the latter indicates the upper limit of the muscular origin of the Temporalis.

  See also

• Temporal fossa

  Additional images

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  Frontal bone. Outer surface.

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  Side view of head, showing surface relations of bones.

  External links

• #17 and #18 (source here)
• Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, at Elsevier 34256.000-2

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