Basion

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Basion
Occipital bone at birth. (Basion visible but not labeled.)
Gray's subject #46 181
Dorlands/Elsevier b_05/12179057

On the occipital bone, the mid-point on the anterior margin of the foramen magnum is termed the basion.

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