Condyloid fossa
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| Bone: Condyloid fossa | |
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| Occipital bone. Outer surface. (Condyloid fossa visible but not labeled.) | |
| Latin | f. condylaris |
| Gray's | subject #31 131 |
| Dorlands / Elsevier | f_14/12375739 |
Behind either condyle of the lateral parts of occipital bone is a depression, the condyloid fossa (or condylar 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, through which an emissary vein passes from the transverse sinus.
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