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occipital bone
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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 ]
Term info
Label
occipital bone
Subsets
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Gray194.png
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
os occipitale, occipital squama, occipital complex
id
UBERON:0001676
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
Term relations
Subclass of:
- neurocranium bone
- flat bone
- has_part some (part of some chondrocranium)
- develops from some sclerotome
- part of some occipital region
- surrounds some foramen magnum
- has_part some (part of some dermatocranium)