Temple (anatomy)
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{{Infobox Anatomy |
Name = {{PAGENAME}} |
Latin = tempora |
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Image = Proportions of the Head.jpg |
Caption = The temple is the side of the [[head (anatomy)|head]] behind the [[eye]]s |
Image2 = Human skull side simplified (bones).svg |
Caption2 = Human skull. Temporal bone is orange, and the temple overlies the temporal bone. |
Precursor = |
System = |
Artery = [[superficial temporal artery]] |
Vein = [[superficial temporal vein]] |
Nerve = |
Lymph = |
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DorlandsPre = t_04 |
DorlandsSuf = 12793657 |
}}
'''Temple''' indicates the side of the [[head (anatomy)|head]] behind the [[eye]]s. The bone beneath is the [[temporal bone]].
==Anatomy==
[[Cladist]]s classify land [[vertebrate|vertebrates]] based on the presence of an upper hole, a lower hole, both, or neither in the cover of [[dermal bone]] which formerly covered the [[temporalis muscle]]. Those with no holes are called [[anapsida]]. The muscle whose origin is the temple and whose insertion is the [[jaw]] is the [[temporalis muscle]]. The brain has a lobe, called the [[temporal lobe]].
==Etymology==
This use of temple is a separate etymology than the word "temple" for "place of worship". Both come from [[Latin]], but the word for the place of worship comes from ''templum'', whereas the word for the part of the head comes from [[Vulgar Latin]] *''tempula'', modified from ''tempora'', plural form ("both temples") of ''tempus'', a word that meant both "time" and the part of the head. Due to the common source with the word for [[time]], the adjective for both is "'''temporal'''" (both "pertaining to time" and "pertaining to the temple").
==External links==
* {{eMedicineDictionary|Temple}}
{{Head and neck general}}
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