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The “polymorphous” history of a polymorphous skull bone: the sphenoid

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,...

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Autores principales: Costea, Claudia, Turliuc, Serban, Cucu, Andrei, Dumitrescu, Gabriela, Carauleanu, Alexandru, Buzduga, Catalin, Sava, Anca, Costache, Irina, Turliuc, Dana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Japan 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5741782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28349500
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12565-017-0399-5
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author Costea, Claudia
Turliuc, Serban
Cucu, Andrei
Dumitrescu, Gabriela
Carauleanu, Alexandru
Buzduga, Catalin
Sava, Anca
Costache, Irina
Turliuc, Dana
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Turliuc, Serban
Cucu, Andrei
Dumitrescu, Gabriela
Carauleanu, Alexandru
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Sava, Anca
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-57417822018-01-04 The “polymorphous” history of a polymorphous skull bone: the sphenoid Costea, Claudia Turliuc, Serban Cucu, Andrei Dumitrescu, Gabriela Carauleanu, Alexandru Buzduga, Catalin Sava, Anca Costache, Irina Turliuc, Dana Anat Sci Int Review Article 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. Springer Japan 2017-03-27 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5741782/ /pubmed/28349500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12565-017-0399-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Costea, Claudia
Turliuc, Serban
Cucu, Andrei
Dumitrescu, Gabriela
Carauleanu, Alexandru
Buzduga, Catalin
Sava, Anca
Costache, Irina
Turliuc, Dana
The “polymorphous” history of a polymorphous skull bone: the sphenoid
title The “polymorphous” history of a polymorphous skull bone: the sphenoid
title_full The “polymorphous” history of a polymorphous skull bone: the sphenoid
title_fullStr The “polymorphous” history of a polymorphous skull bone: the sphenoid
title_full_unstemmed The “polymorphous” history of a polymorphous skull bone: the sphenoid
title_short The “polymorphous” history of a polymorphous skull bone: the sphenoid
title_sort “polymorphous” history of a polymorphous skull bone: the sphenoid
topic Review Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5741782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28349500
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12565-017-0399-5
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