Condyloid canal
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| Condyloid canal | |
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| Occipital bone. Outer surface. (Condyloid canal visible at center right.) | |
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| Base of the skull. Upper surface. (Condyloid canal not labeled, the occipital bone is visible at the bottom in blue, and the condyloid foramen is labeled at left, third from the bottom.) | |
| Latin | canalis condylaris |
| Gray's | subject #31 131 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | c_04/12208576 |
In the lateral parts of occipital bone, behind either condyle is a depression, the condyloid fossa, which receives the posterior margin of the superior facet of the atlas when the head is bent backward; the floor of this fossa is sometimes perforated by the condyloid canal (or condylar canal), through which an emissary vein passes from the transverse sinus.
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Base of skull. Inferior surface. |
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