Internal occipital protuberance

Internal occipital protuberance
Position of internal occipital protuberance (shown in red). Parietal bones removed.
Occipital bone. Inner surface. (Internal occipital protuberance visible at center, at the center of the horizontal and vertical lines.)
Details
Latin	protuberantia occipitalis interna
Identifiers
Dorlands /Elsevier	p_38/12673898
TA
TH	{{#property:P1694}}
TE	{{#property:P1693}}
FMA	{{#property:P1402}}
Anatomical terms of bone [[[d:|edit on Wikidata]]]

Along the internal surface of the occipital bone, at the point of intersection of the four divisions of the cruciate eminence is the internal occipital protuberance. Running transversely on either side is a groove for the transverse sinus.

Additional images

Human skull. Internal occipital protuberance shown in red. Parietal bones and temporal bones are removed.  Occipital bone. Position of internal occipital protuberance shown in red.  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.)

See also

• External occipital protuberance

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

• Anatomy diagram: 34257.000-2 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier
• Diagram at uni-mainz.de