Basilar part of occipital bone

Basilar part of occipital bone

Occipital bone inner surface (basilar part is shown in red)

Occipital bone outer surface, at birth (basilar part is at bottom)
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Identifiers
Latin Pars basilaris ossis occipitalis
TA A02.1.04.005
FMA 52858

Anatomical terms of bone

The basilar part of the occipital bone (also basioccipital) extends forward and upward from the foramen magnum, and presents in front an area more or less quadrilateral in outline.

In the young skull this area is rough and uneven, and is joined to the body of the sphenoid by a plate of cartilage.

By the twenty-fifth year this cartilaginous plate is ossified, and the occipital and sphenoid form a continuous bone.

Surfaces

On its lower surface, about 1 cm. in front of the foramen magnum, is the pharyngeal tubercle which gives attachment to the fibrous raphe of the pharynx.

On either side of the middle line the longus capitis and rectus capitis anterior are inserted, and immediately in front of the foramen magnum the anterior atlantooccipital membrane is attached.

The upper surface, constitutes the lower half of clivus, presents a broad, shallow groove which inclines upward and forward from the foramen magnum; it supports the medulla oblongata, and near the margin of the foramen magnum gives attachment to the tectorial membrane

On the lateral margins of this surface are faint grooves for the inferior petrosal sinuses.

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References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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