Infraorbital margin

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Infraorbital margin
Skull, anterior view, with infraorbital margin labeled in red.
Latin margo infraorbitalis
Dorlands/Elsevier c_56/12260607

The infraorbital margin is the lower margin of the orbita.

[edit] Structure

It consists of the zygomatic bone and the maxilla, on which it separates the anterior and the orbital surface of the body of the maxilla.

[edit] Function

It is an attachment for the levator labii superioris muscle.