Trigeminal cave

Trigeminal cave
Trigeminal cave
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The trigeminal ganglion and its branches represented here as 1st division, 2nd division, and 3rd division. The Trigeminal Cave houses this ganglion.
Latin cavum Meckelii, cavum trigeminale
Gray's subject #200 886

The trigeminal cave (also known as Meckel's Cave or cavum trigeminale) is two layers of dura mater which encase the trigeminal ganglion near the apex of the petrous part of the temporal bone. It is bounded by the dura overlying four structures:

1. The cerebellar tentorium (tentorium cerebelli) superolaterally
2. The lateral wall of the cavernous sinus superomedially
3. The clivus medially
4. The posterior petrous face inferolaterally

It is named for Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Elder.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ synd/2133 at Who Named It?
  2. ^ J. F. Meckel. Tractatus anatomico physiologicus de quinto pare nervorum cerebri. Göttingen 1748.

This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.

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