Sphenoid bone. Upper surface. (Carotid groove visible at left center.)
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| colspan="2" |Base of the skull. Upper surface. (Sphenoid bone is in yellow, and carotid groove is labeled at center of sphenoid.
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|Latin
|colspan="2"|sulcus caroticus ossis sphenoidalis
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|[[List of subjects in Gray's Anatomy:35#Gray.27s_page_.23|Gray's]]
|colspan="2"|[subject #35 ]
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|Precursor
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|MeSH
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|Dorlands/Elsevier
|colspan="2"|[g_12/12402464]
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Above the attachment of each great wing of the sphenoid bone is a broad groove, curved something like the italic letter f; it lodges the internal carotid artery and the cavernous sinus, and is named the carotid groove.
