clinoid process

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Introduction

One of 3 pairs of bony projections from the sphenoid bone.

The anterior & posterior pairs of clinoid processes surround the hypophyseal fossa like bedposts.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999