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Facts

Also Known As	cephalon

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Illustration of a human skull showing both lateral (side) and frontal views, with major bones of the cranium and face labeled in different colors, including the parietal, frontal, temporal, occipital, sphenoid, ethmoid, nasal, lacrimal, zygomatic, maxilla, mandible, vomer, and inferior nasal concha.

cutaneous nerves of the head and neck

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Topics

human ear mouth jaw nose skull face lips cephalization eye dolichocephaly skeleton blood bone connective tissue Tissue heart fluid lymph abdomen Biomolecule

Key People

Bergmann, Ernst von

Ernst von Bergmann

German surgeon