Hypophysial fossa

Hypophysial fossa

Infobox Bone
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Latin = fossa hypophysialis
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Caption = Sphenoid bone. Upper surface. (Fossa hypophyseos visible at center.)



Caption2 = Base of the skull. Upper surface. (Sphenoid bone is yellow, and fossa hypophysseos is visible at center of sphenoid.)
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In the sphenoid bone, behind the chiasmatic groove is an elevation, the tuberculum sellae; and still more posteriorly, a deep depression, the sella turcica, the deepest part of which lodges the hypophysis cerebri and is known as the fossa hypophyseos (or fossa hypophysialis).

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* [http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Medizin/Anatomie/makro1/s108o.htm Diagram at uni-mainz.d]
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* - "Cranial Fossae: Diaphragma Sellae"


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