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Opening in the ethmoid bone in the skull
The
anterior ethmoidal foramen
is a small opening in the
ethmoid bone
in the
skull
.
Lateral to either
olfactory groove
are the internal openings of the anterior and
posterior ethmoidal foramina
(or canals).
The anterior ethmoidal foramen, situated about the middle of the lateral margin of the olfactory groove, transmits the
anterior ethmoidal artery
,
vein
and
nerve
.
The
anterior ethmoidal nerve
, a branch of the
nasociliary nerve
, runs in a groove along the lateral edge of the
cribriform plate
to the above-mentioned slit-like opening .
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This article incorporates text in the
public domain
from
page 190
of the 20th edition of
Gray's Anatomy
(1918)
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