Medical Dictionary

temporal line

noun

Medical Definition of TEMPORAL LINE

:  either of two nearly parallel ridges or lines on each side of the skull that begin as a single ridge on the temporal bone, run upward and backward from the zygomatic process above the temporal fossa, divide into upper and lower lines, and continue on the parietal bone

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