Temple (anatomy)
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Cladistics classifies land vertebrates based on the presence of an upper hole, a lower hole, both, or neither in the cover of dermal bone that formerly covered the temporalis muscle, whose origin is the temple and whose insertion is the jaw.
Etymology
The word "temple" as used in anatomy has a separate etymology from the other meaning of word temple, meaning "place of worship". Both come from Latin, but the word for the place of worship comes from Script error: No such module "Lang"., whereas the word for the part of the head comes from Vulgar Latin *Script error: No such module "Lang"., modified from Script error: No such module "Lang"., plural form ("both temples") of Script error: No such module "Lang"., a word that refers both to "time" and to this part of the head. Due to its shared spelling (but not shared source) with the word for time, the adjective for both is "temporal" (both "pertaining to time" and "pertaining to the anatomical temple").
The name of the temporalis muscle looks like a form of the Latin word "tempus" meaning "time",[2] but this is a coincidence and the two words do not come from the same root.[3]
See also
- Pterion, the weakest part of the skull
References
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