Landmark · Skeletal system
Anterior clinoid process
Processus clinoideus anterior
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Head
- Landmark on
- Sphenoid bone
DescriptionUnreviewed
In the sphenoid bone, the posterior border, smooth and rounded, is received into the lateral fissure of the brain; the medial end of this border forms the anterior clinoid process, which gives attachment to the tentorium cerebelli; it is sometimes joined to the middle clinoid process by a spicule of bone, and when this occurs the termination of the groove for the internal carotid artery is converted into a foramen (carotico-clinoid).
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Names
- Latin
- Processus clinoideus anterior
- English
- Anterior clinoid process
- French
- Processsus clinoïde antérieur
- Spanish
- Proceso clinoide anterior
- Portuguese
- Processo clinóide anterior