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)
Details
Identifiers
Latinpars basilaris ossis occipitalis
TA98A02.1.04.005
TA2554
FMA52858
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.


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