Anterior clinoid process

Anterior clinoid process
Upper and posterior surfaces of sphenoid bone (anterior clinoid process visible at top left)
File:Processusclinoideusanterior.PNG Upper surface of the base of the skull (label for anterior clinoid process visible at center left. Sphenoid bone is yellow.)
Details
Latin	Processus clinoideus anterior
Identifiers
Dorlands /Elsevier	p_34/12667364
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Anatomical terms of bone [[[d:|edit on Wikidata]]]

In the sphenoid bone, the posterior border, smooth and rounded, is received into the lateral fissure of the brain; the medial end of this border forms the anterior clinoid process, which gives attachment to the tentorium cerebelli; it is sometimes joined to the middle clinoid process by a spicule of bone, and when this occurs the termination of the groove for the internal carotid artery is converted into a foramen (carotico-clinoid).

Etymology

The anterior and posterior clinoid processes surround the sella turcica like the four corners of a four poster bed. Cline is Greek for bed. –oid, as usual, indicates a similarity to. The term may also come from the Greek root klinein or the Latin clinare, both meaning "sloped" as in "inclined."

Additional images

• Anterior clinoid process.jpg

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References

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

External links

• Anatomy diagram: 34257.000-2 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier
• Anatomy photo:22:os-0910 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center