Occipital bone ossification centres

Case contributed by Bruno Di Muzio
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The occipital bone has complex development; it ossifies from six different centres. The six centres that are seen in the diagram are:

  1. basioccipital bone

  2. exoccipital bone (two centres)

  3. supraoccipital bone

  4. interparietal bone (two centres)

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Author: Henry Gray

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