occipital part of head

Definition

Anatomical cluster that is located in the posterior region of the cranium and forms the margin of the foramen magnum and occipital condyles.

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Relations

Arterial supply

occipital artery

Venous drainage

occipital vein

Lymphatic drainage

occipital lymph nodes

Neighbouring structures

• basicranial part of head proper
• frontal part of head
• left parietal part of head
• right parietal part of head

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Wikipedia (English)

Identifiers

TA2

102

FMA

49187

UBERON

0005902

Wikidata

Q3321315