Tuberculum sellae
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Tuberculum sellae | |
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Sphenoid bone. Upper surface. (Tuberculum sellae visible at center.) | |
Base of the skull. Upper surface. (Sphenoid bone visible in yellow, the tuberculum sellae is labeled at the right, fourth from the top of the yellow section.) | |
Gray's | subject #35 147 |
Dorlands/Elsevier | t_21/12829066 |
In the sphenoid bone, behind the chiasmatic groove is an elevation, the tuberculum sellæ (or the tubercle of sella turcica).
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