Internal occipital protuberance
- Internal occipital protuberance
Infobox Bone
Name = Internal occipital protuberance
Latin = protuberantia occipitalis interna
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Caption = Occipital bone. Inner surface. (Internal occipital protuberance visible at center, at the center of the horizontal and vertical lines.)
Caption2 = Base of the skull. Upper surface. (Internal occipital protuberance not labeled, but occipital bone is in blue at bottom, and Internal occipital protuberance is horizontally at the level of the transverse sinus, and vertically at the exact center.)
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In the occipital bone, at the point of intersection of the four divisions of the cruciate eminence is the internal occipital protuberance.
ee also
* external occipital protuberance
External links
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* [http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Medizin/Anatomie/makro1/o29i.htm Diagram at uni-mainz.de]
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