Petro-occipital fissure

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Petro-occipital fissure
Base of the skull. Upper surface. (Petro-occipital fissure is not labeled, but petrous portion is bottom part of temporal bone, in pink, and occipital bone is at bottom, in blue.)
Latin	fissura petrooccipitalis
Gray's	subject #47 193
Dorlands/Elsevier	f_08/12365616

This grooved surface of the foramen magnum is separated on either side from the petrous portion of the temporal by the petro-occipital fissure, which is occupied in the fresh state by a plate of cartilage; the fissure is continuous behind with the jugular foramen, and its margins are grooved for the inferior petrosal sinus.

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• Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, at Elsevier 34257.000-2

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