Lamina papyracea

Lamina papyracea
Ethmoid bone from the right side. (Lamina papyracea visible at center left.)
The seven bones which articulate to form the orbit. (Ethmoid is brown.)
Latin	lamina orbitalis ossis ethmoidalis, os planum
Gray's	subject #36 155
Dorlands/Elsevier	l_02/12476524

The lateral surface of the labyrinth of the ethmoid bone is formed of a thin, smooth, oblong plate, the lamina papyracea (or orbital lamina), which covers in the middle and posterior ethmoidal cells and forms a large part of the medial wall of the orbit.

It articulates above with the orbital plate of the frontal bone, below with the maxilla and the orbital process of palatine bone, in front with the lacrimal, and behind with the sphenoid.

External links

• SUNY Labs 29:st-0201 - "Orbits and Eye: Bones"
• Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, at Elsevier 34256.000-2

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