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occipital bone

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001676

The bone at the lower, posterior part of the skull. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 MP:0005269 ]

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Gray194.png

has related synonym

os occipitale

occipital squama

occipital complex

id

UBERON:0001676

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

taxon notes

fusion of basi-, exo- and supra-occipitals (and maybe tabular)

formed from the sclerotome of the occipital somites. It is not present in living or fossil agnathans or cartilaginous fishes, but appears to have arisen in parallel in many bony fishes. Incorporation of the occipital ver- tebrae into the skull was associated with the annexation of the upper part of the spinal cord into the brain, together with the first 2 spinal nerves as cranial nerves XI and XII