Occipital bone. Outer surface. (Jugular process visible at lower left.)
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| colspan="2" |Base of the skull. Upper surface. (Jugular process not labeled, but occipital bone is identified in blue at the bottom, and jugular process is at upper right of occipital bone.)
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|Latin
|colspan="2"|p. jugularis ossis occipitalis
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|MeSH
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|Dorlands/Elsevier
|colspan="2"|[p_34/12667477]
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In the lateral part of the occipital bone, extending lateralward from the posterior half of the condyle is a quadrilateral plate of bone, the jugular process, excavated in front by the jugular notch, which, in the articulated skull, forms the posterior part of the jugular foramen.
