Fossa hypophyseos
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| Fossa hypophyseos | |
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| Sphenoid bone. Upper surface. (Fossa hypophyseos visible at center.) | |
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| Base of the skull. Upper surface. (Sphenoid bone is yellow, and fossa hypophysseos is visible at center of sphenoid.) | |
| Gray's | subject #35 147 |
In the sphenoid bone, behind the chiasmatic groove is an elevation, the tuberculum sellæ; 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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- SUNY Labs 28:14-0102 - "Cranial Fossae: Diaphragma Sellae"
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