...Men disqualified for appreciating such points of correspondence as those which Homology demonstrates between the ' basilar process of the occipital bone ' and the body of a trunk-vertebra, are apt to take credit to themselves for their 'power of restraining the imagination.'...

...occipital foramen and condyles. On each side are the pterygoid processes, and above, it is bounded by the basilar process of the occipital bone and the body of the sphenoid bone. The Ocoip'ital region includes that part of the base of the skull posterior to the occipital foramen...

...instances, but that their origin is always from the periosteum which covers the inferior surface of the basilar process of the occipital bone, and the body of the sphenoid bone. He states that, as the tumor develops, its prolongations may proceed along the vertebral column beneath...

...appear, the basi.occipital, the basi-sphenoidal, and the pre-sphenoidal. They ultimately develop into the basilar process of the occipital bone and the body of the sphenoid. The entire sheleton is at first either membranous or cartilaginous. At the beginning of the second...

...its surface is often ulcerated. Its exact scat of implantation seems to be the periosteum covering the basilar process of the occipital bone and the body of the sphenoid. Other apparent points of attachment are merely secondary adhesions, formed in the course of the expansion...

...behind the palate to the point of the left index in the nostril. The attachments were certainly to the basilar process of the occipital bone and the body of the atlas, and seemingly also to the body of the sphenoid. The growth was entirely subperiosteal, and,...

...base of the skull, and, in addition, sharpening of the occipito-sphenoidal angle, or the angle formed between the basilar process of the occipital bone and the body of the sphenoid. In the five skulls examined by Ackermann the angle made by the basilar process of the occipital bone...

...its surface is often ulcerated. Its exact seat of implantation seems to be the periosteum covering the basilar process of the occipital bone and the body of the sphenoid. Other apparent points of attachment are merely secondary adhesions, formed in the course of the expansion...

...pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone. The basilar fibrocartilage, a thickening of the periosteum, covers the basilar process of the occipital bone and the body of the sphenoid, and, extending outward, fills the petro-occipital fissure and the foramen lacerum, and is lost in the...

...selected points on the surface of the ikull. B. sinus. See TRANSVERSE SINUS. B. suture, the suture between the basilar process of the occipital bone and the body of the sphenoid. B. vein, a branch of the vein of Galen, passing over the crus cerebri. B. vertebra, the fifth lumbar...