Infraorbital margin

Infraorbital margin

Skull, anterior view, with infraorbital margin labeled in red.
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Identifiers
Latin margo infraorbitalis
TA A02.1.00.072
FMA 53177

Anatomical terminology

The infraorbital margin is the lower margin of the eye socket.

Structure

It consists of the zygomatic bone and the maxilla, on which it separates the anterior and the orbital surface of the body of the maxilla.

Function

It is an attachment for the levator labii superioris muscle.


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