External occipital protuberance
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
External occipital protuberance | |
---|---|
Human skull lateral view. External occipital protuberance shown in red.
|
|
Occipital bone seen from below. Outer surface. (External occipital protuberance visible at top center.)
|
|
Details | |
Latin | protuberantia occipitalis externa |
Identifiers | |
Dorlands /Elsevier |
p_38/12673891 |
TA | Lua error in Module:Wikidata at line 744: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
TH | {{#property:P1694}} |
TE | {{#property:P1693}} |
FMA | {{#property:P1402}} |
Anatomical terminology
[[[d:Lua error in Module:Wikidata at line 863: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).|edit on Wikidata]]]
|
Near the middle of the squamous part of occipital bone is the external occipital protuberance, the highest point of which is referred to as the inion. Extending laterally from it on either side is the superior nuchal line, and above it is the faintly marked highest nuchal line.
A study of 16th-century Anatolian remains showed that the external occipital protuberance statistically tends to be less pronounced in female remains.[1]
Additional images
|
See also
References
This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to External occipital protuberance. |
- Anatomy diagram: 34257.000-1 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier
- http://www.upstate.edu/cdb/grossanat/hnsklatob1.shtml
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>