The optic foramen is the opening to the optic canal. The canal is located in the sphenoid bone; it is bounded medially by the body of the sphenoid and laterally by the lesser wing of the sphenoid.
The superior surface of the sphenoid bone is bounded behind by a ridge, which forms the anterior border of a narrow, transverse groove, the chiasmatic groove (optic groove), above and behind which lies the optic chiasma; the groove ends on either side in the optic foramen, which transmits the optic nerve and ophthalmic artery (with accompanying sympathetic nerve fibres) into the orbital cavity. Compared to the optic nerve, the ophthalmic artery is located inferolaterally within the canal.
The left and right optic canals are 25mm apart posteriorly and 30mm apart anteriorly. The canals themselves are funnel-shaped (narrowest anteriorly).
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1Additional images
2See also
3References
4External links
Additional images
The seven bones which articulate to form the orbit.
Sphenoid bone. Upper surface.
Medial wall of left orbit.
Dissection showing origins of right ocular muscles, and nerves entering by the superior orbital fissure.
Optic canal
See also
Foramina of skull
References
This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 147 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
External links
Anatomy photo:29:os-0501 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Atlas image: eye_6 at the University of Michigan Health System - (look for #3)
Anatomy image: skel/internal2 at Human Anatomy Lecture (Biology 129), Pennsylvania State University (look for #10)
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The neurocranium of the skull
Occipital
Squamous part
external
Inion/External occipital protuberance
Occipital bun
External occipital crest
Nuchal lines
Suprainiac fossa
planes
Occipital
Nuchal
internal
Cruciform eminence
Internal occipital protuberance
Internal occipital crest
Groove for transverse sinus
Lateral parts
Condyle
Condyloid fossa
Condylar canal
Hypoglossal canal
jugular
Jugular process
Jugular tubercle
Basilar part
Pharyngeal tubercle
Clivus
Other
Foramen magnum
Basion
Opisthion
Parietal
Parietal eminence
Temporal line
Parietal foramen
Sagittal sulcus
Sagittal keel
Sagittal crest
Frontal
Squamous part
Frontal suture
Frontal eminence
external
Superciliary arches
Glabella
foramina
Supraorbital foramen
Brow ridge
Foramen cecum
Zygomatic process
internal
Sagittal sulcus
Frontal crest
Orbital part
Ethmoidal notch
Fossa for lacrimal gland
Trochlear fovea
Frontal sinus
Frontonasal duct
Temporal
Squamous part
Articular tubercle
Suprameatal triangle
Mandibular fossa
Petrotympanic fissure
Zygomatic process
Mastoid part
Mastoid foramen
Mastoid process (Mastoid cells)
Mastoid notch
Occipital groove
Sigmoid sulcus
Mastoid antrum (Aditus)
Petrous part
Carotid canal
Facial canal
Hiatus
Internal auditory meatus
Cochlear aqueduct
Stylomastoid foramen
fossae
Subarcuate fossa
Jugular fossa
canaliculi
Inferior tympanic
Mastoid
Styloid process
Petrosquamous suture
(note: ossicles in petrous part, but not part of temporal bone)
Tympanic part
Suprameatal spine
Sphenoid
Surfaces
Superior surface: Sella turcica
Dorsum sellae
Tuberculum sellae
Hypophysial fossa
Posterior clinoid processes
Ethmoidal spine
Chiasmatic groove
Middle clinoid process
Petrosal process
Clivus
Lateral surface: Carotid groove
Sphenoidal lingula
Anterior surface: Sphenoidal sinuses
Great wings
foramina
Rotundum
Ovale
Vesalii
Spinosum
Spine
Infratemporal crest
Sulcus of auditory tube
Small wings
Superior orbital fissure
Anterior clinoid process
Optic canal
Pterygoid processes
fossae
Pterygoid
Scaphoid
pterygoid plates
Lateral
Medial
Pterygoid canal
Hamulus
Other
Body
Sphenoidal conchae
Ethmoid
Plates
Cribriform plate
Crista galli
Olfactory foramina
Perpendicular plate
Surfaces
Lateral surface Orbital lamina
Uncinate process
Medial surface Supreme nasal concha
Superior nasal concha
Superior meatus
Middle nasal concha
Middle meatus
Labyrinth
Ethmoid sinus
ethmoidal foramina
Posterior
Anterior
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Foramina of the skull (and canals, fissures, meatus, and hiatus)
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