incisive foramen

The point where the primary palate and both palatine shelves fuse. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the incisive foramen is

The point where the primary palate and both palatine shelves fuse. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the incisive foramen is

It sits in the head, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the incisive foramen connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of skull.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the incisive foramen. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as Stenson's foramen, foramina incisivum, nasopalatine foramen, foramina incisiva, incisive foramina and incisive fossa. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0012315, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: skull.
• A kind of: foramen of skull.
• Adjacent to: primary palate and secondary palatal shelf.

Questions

Where is the incisive foramen?

It sits in the head, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the incisive foramen connect to?

Part of: skull.

Is the incisive foramen the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.