name	sphenoid_bone
namespace	http://cytomer.bioinf.med.uni-goettingen.de#
parent	 part_of_neurocranium 
parent	 pneumatized_bone 
parent	 neurocranium 
label [en]	sphenoid bone
comment [de]	Knochen der Schädelbasis; grenzt an Stirnbein, Hinterhauptbein, Schläfenbein und Scheitelbein, besteht aus Keilbeinkörper, großer und kleiner Keilbeinflügel, Processus pterygoideus und Sinus sphenoidalis
label [de]	Keilbein
speciesNo []	86
ACC []	cy0050415
nameEnglishSynonym []	sphenoid (right and left)
label [med]	Os sphenoidale (dexter and sinister)
organNo []	1204
comment [en]	An irregularly shaped bone in front of the occipital bone in the base of the skull of the higher vertebrates; it is discribed as consisting of a central portion, or body, and six processes: two greater wings, two lesser wings and two pterygoid processes; it articulates with the occipital bone, frontal bone, ethmoid bone, and vomer, and with the paired temporal bone, parietal bone, zygomatic bone, palatine bone and sphenoidal concha bones
hasPart	pterygoid_hamulus
adjacentTo	sphenopalatine_foramen
hasPart	lesser_wing_of_sphenoid_bone
hasPart	interclinoid_taenia_variation
hasPart	pterygoid_process
hasPart	pterygospinous_process
isPartOf	sphenovomerine_suture
hasPart	pterygoid_canal
hasPart	vaginal_process_of_sphenoid
forms	anterior_cranial_fossa
hasPart	scaphoid_fossa
hasPart	body_of_sphenoid
hasPart	greater_wing_of_sphenoid_bone
hasPart	pterygoid_notch
hasPart	pterygoid_fossa
isPartOf	sphenozygomatic_suture
isPartOf	sphenomaxillary_suture
isPartOf	spheno-ethmoidal_suture
forms	middle_cranial_fossa