NOUN | an occipital bone | occipital bones | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- The occipital bone of the skull and the auditory capsule are not connected.
- The forehead line is moderately arched as seen from the side, with the occipital bone well developed without being conspicuous.
- suggests from their findings that the cause of the anomaly is actually a defect in the occipital bone and rachischisis of the posterior vertebral arches leading to herniation of neural tissue through the opening in the bone during gestation.
- In the neurocranium these are the occipital bone, two temporal bones, two parietal bones, the sphenoid, ethmoid and frontal bones.
- The occipital bone (...) is a cranial dermal bone and the main bone of the occiput (back and lower part of the skull).
- The foramen magnum is a large, oval-shaped opening (foramen) in the occipital bone of the skull. Posteriorly, it is bounded by the supraocciput. Laterally, it is bounded by the occipital condyles.
- The upper and lower borders respectively give attachment to the anterior atlantooccipital membrane and the anterior atlantoaxial ligament; the former connects it with the occipital bone above, and the latter with the axis below.
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