Jugular process

Jugular process
	Human skull seen from below. Jugular process shown in red.
	Occipital bone. Inner surface. Jugular process shown in red.
Details
Identifiers
Latin	Processus jugularis ossis occipitalis
TA	A02.1.04.020
FMA	75750
	Anatomical terms of bone

In the lateral part of the occipital bone, extending lateralward from the posterior half of the condyle is a quadrilateral or triangular 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. The lateral side is divided from the medial side by the intrajugular process of occipital bone.

It serves as the insertion of the rectus capitis lateralis.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 131 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

"Anatomy diagram: 34257.000-2". Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator. Elsevier. Archived from the original on 2014-01-01.

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