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Temple indicates the side of the head behind the eye
Eye

Eyes are Organ that detect light, and send signals along the optic nerve to the visual system and other areas of the brain. Complex optical systems with resolving power have come in ten fundamentally different forms, and 96% of animal species possess a complex optical system....
s. The bone beneath is the temporal bone
Temporal bone

The temporal bones are situated at the sides and base of the skull.The temporal bone supports that part of the face known as the temple ....
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ists classify land vertebrates
Vertebrate

Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata, chordates with Vertebras or Vertebral columns. The grouping sometimes includes the hagfish, which have no vertebrae, but are genetically quite closely related to lampreys, which do have vertebrae....
 based on the presence of an upper hole, a lower hole, both, or neither in the cover of dermal bone
Dermal bone

The dermal bone, the pattern and form of bones derived from intramembranous ossification, define essential components of the vertebrate skeleton including the skull, jaws, gills, fins and exoskeleton....
 which formerly covered the temporalis muscle
Temporalis muscle

The temporalis muscle is one of the Mastication#Muscles of mastication....
. Those with no holes are called anapsida. The muscle whose origin is the temple and whose insertion is the jaw
Jaw

The jaw is either of the two opposable structures forming, or near the entrance to the mouth.The term jaws is also broadly applied to the whole of the structures constituting the vault of the mouth and serving to open and close it and is part of the body plan of most animals....
 is the temporalis muscle
Temporalis muscle

The temporalis muscle is one of the Mastication#Muscles of mastication....
. The brain has a lobe, called the temporal lobe
Temporal lobe

The temporal lobe is a region of the cerebral cortex that is located beneath the Sylvian fissure on both the left and right hemispheres of the brain....
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use of temple is a separate etymology than the word "temple" for "place of worship".






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Temple indicates the side of the head behind the eye
Eye

Eyes are Organ that detect light, and send signals along the optic nerve to the visual system and other areas of the brain. Complex optical systems with resolving power have come in ten fundamentally different forms, and 96% of animal species possess a complex optical system....
s. The bone beneath is the temporal bone
Temporal bone

The temporal bones are situated at the sides and base of the skull.The temporal bone supports that part of the face known as the temple ....
.

Anatomy

Cladists classify land vertebrates
Vertebrate

Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata, chordates with Vertebras or Vertebral columns. The grouping sometimes includes the hagfish, which have no vertebrae, but are genetically quite closely related to lampreys, which do have vertebrae....
 based on the presence of an upper hole, a lower hole, both, or neither in the cover of dermal bone
Dermal bone

The dermal bone, the pattern and form of bones derived from intramembranous ossification, define essential components of the vertebrate skeleton including the skull, jaws, gills, fins and exoskeleton....
 which formerly covered the temporalis muscle
Temporalis muscle

The temporalis muscle is one of the Mastication#Muscles of mastication....
. Those with no holes are called anapsida. The muscle whose origin is the temple and whose insertion is the jaw
Jaw

The jaw is either of the two opposable structures forming, or near the entrance to the mouth.The term jaws is also broadly applied to the whole of the structures constituting the vault of the mouth and serving to open and close it and is part of the body plan of most animals....
 is the temporalis muscle
Temporalis muscle

The temporalis muscle is one of the Mastication#Muscles of mastication....
. The brain has a lobe, called the temporal lobe
Temporal lobe

The temporal lobe is a region of the cerebral cortex that is located beneath the Sylvian fissure on both the left and right hemispheres of the brain....
.

Etymology

This use of temple is a separate etymology than the word "temple" for "place of worship". Both come from Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
, but the word for the place of worship comes from templum, whereas the word for the part of the head comes from Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin

Vulgar Latin is a blanket term covering the popular dialects and sociolects of the Latin which diverged from each other in the early Middle Ages, evolving into the Romance languages by the 9th century....
 *tempula, modified from tempora, plural form ("both temples") of tempus, a word that meant both "time" and the part of the head. Due to the common source with the word for time
Time

Time is a component of the measurement used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects....
, the adjective for both is "temporal" (both "pertaining to time" and "pertaining to the temple").

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