sella turcica
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sella turcica
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Latin: sella + turcica = literally “Turkish chair”.
noun sellae turcicae · sellæ turcicæ
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A saddle-shaped depression in the sphenoid bone of the skull in humans and other hominids.
In the so-called “janus formation” we encounter a grave disturbance of development. Here are two distinct bodies joined together by an enormous head with two faces. In these cases, without doubt, there was a union of the two axes (chordæ dorsales) at their anterior extremity, at the so-called sellæ
Similar: sella, sella equina, sella sphenoidalis
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noun saddle-shaped depression in the sphenoid bone
| العربية | السَرْجُ التُرْكِيّ as-sarju t-turkiyy |
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title = {sella turcica},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sella%20turcica},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
