It extends between the posterior clinoid process and anterior clinoid process and the petrosal part of the temporal bone of the skull.
Floor view skull anterior clinoid process.
In the medial aspect the lesser wing of the sphenoid forms the anterior clinoid process.
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This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 151 of the 20th edition of gray s anatomy 1918.
Frontal bone cranial view frontal.
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The anterior clinoid processes form the posterolateral segment and help form the roof of the optic canal.
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Named the anterior and posterior petroclinoid ligaments respectively.
They are attachment sites for the tentorium cerebelli dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the inferior occipital lobes of the brain.
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There are two separate bands of the ligament.
Evaluation of the skull base on axial ct slices in a craniocaudal sequence.
It extends between the posterior clinoid process and anterior clinoid process and the petrosal part of the temporal bone of the skull.
2 anterior semicircular canal.
The sella turcica latin for turkish seat is a saddle shaped depression in the body of the sphenoid bone of the human skull and of the skulls of other hominids including chimpanzees orangutans and gorillas it serves as a cephalometric landmark the pituitary gland or hypophysis is located within the most inferior aspect of the sella turcica the hypophyseal fossa.
The petroclinoid ligament is a fold of dura matter.