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The supratrochlear foramen is a small hole located above the Akram Abood Jaffar: Personal website, Anatomical variations
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The supratrochlear foramen is a small hole located above the trochlea of the humerus
In the human arm, the humeral trochlea is the medial portion of the articular surface of the elbow joint which articulates with the trochlear notch on the ulna in the forearm.
Structure
In humans and apes it is trochleariform (or trochleiform), a ...
of several mammals, it is found frequently in dog
The dog (''Canis familiaris'' or ''Canis lupus familiaris'') is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it is derived from the extinct Pleistocene wolf, and the modern wolf is the dog's nearest living relative. Do ...
s and sometimes in humans, especially women and in the left humerus. It is covered by a layer of connective tissue
Connective tissue is one of the four primary types of animal tissue, along with epithelial tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue. It develops from the mesenchyme derived from the mesoderm the middle embryonic germ layer. Connective tiss ...
.
It is not currently recognized with a Terminologia Anatomica
''Terminologia Anatomica'' is the international standard for human anatomical terminology. It is developed by the Federative International Programme on Anatomical Terminology, a program of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomis ...
name in human
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anatomy, but the term is still found in older texts and in discussing anatomical variation./ref>
See also
*Entepicondylar foramen The entepicondylar foramen is an opening in the distal (far) end of the humerus (upper arm bone) present in some mammals. It is often present in primitive placentals, such as the enigmatic Madagascan ''Plesiorycteropus''. In most Neotominae and al ...
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