Anatomy Mnemonics

• Incisive fossa
• Greater palatine fossa
• Lesser palatine fossa

3 SMALL foramina of the middle part (Small Sized Opening)

• Sternomastoid foramen
• Foramen Spinosum
• Foramen ovale

3 LARGE foramina of the middle part (Laceration of artery and vein)

• Foramen lacerum
• Carotid canal
• Jugular foramen

3 foramina related to the occipital condyles

• Anterior condylar foramen
• Posterior condylar foramen
• Foramen Magnum

3 fissures of the base of the skull (one related to the eye, ear, mouth)

• Inferior orbital fissure
• Pterygo-maxillary fissure
• Squamo-tympanic fissure

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• Otic ganglion (just inferior)
• V3 cranial nerve
• Accessory meningeal artery
• Lesser petrosal nerve
• Emissary veins

• Superior orbital fissure is V1
• foramen Rotundum is V2
• foramen Ovale is V3

• Foramen spinosum is adjacent to the spine of sphenoid.