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Preoccipital notch

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Preoccipital notch
Human brain lateral view description (#8 at bottom right = Incisura praeoccipitalis)
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Identifiers
LatinIncisura praeoccipitalis
NeuroLex IDbirnlex_1436
TA98A14.1.09.109
TA25438
FMA83739
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

About 5 cm. in front of the occipital pole on the infero-lateral border is an indentation or notch, named the preoccipital notch. It is considered a landmark because the occipital lobe is located just behind the line that connects that notch with the parietoccipital sulcus.

  • Preoccipital notch (shown in red)
    Preoccipital notch (shown in red)

References

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 818 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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