Facial skeleton

Facial bones
Facial bones
	The fourteen bones that form the human facial skeleton
	The fourteen facial bones. (Neurocranium is shown in semi-transparent.) Blue: Vomer (1) Yellow: Maxilla (2) Purple: Mandible (1) Pink: Nasal bones (2) Red: Palatine bones (2) Bright blue: Lacrimal bones (2) Dark green: Zygomatic bones (2) Bright green: Inferior nasal concha (2)
Details
Part of	Face, skeleton
Identifiers
Latin	ossa faciei, ossa facialia
MeSH	D005147
TA2	356
	Anatomical terms of bone

The facial skeleton comprises the facial bones that may attach to build a portion of the skull.^[1] The remainder of the skull is the neurocranium.

In human anatomy and development, the facial skeleton is sometimes called the membranous viscerocranium, which comprises the mandible and dermatocranial elements that are not part of the braincase.

^ Jinkins, J. Randy (2000). Atlas of Neuroradiologic Embryology, Anatomy, and Variants. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 458. ISBN 0-7817-1652-7. Retrieved 24 August 2017.

[Jinkins-1] Jinkins, J. Randy (2000). Atlas of Neuroradiologic Embryology, Anatomy, and Variants. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 458. ISBN 0-7817-1652-7. Retrieved 24 August 2017.

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