Occipital sinus

Occipital sinus
Dural veins
The sinuses at the base of the skull. (Occipial sinus visible at bottom center, below the Foramen Magnum on image.)
Details
Drains toconfluence of sinuses
Identifiers
Latinsinus occipitalis
TA98A12.3.05.105
TA24855
FMA50781
Anatomical terminology

The occipital sinus is the smallest of the dural venous sinuses (also known as the cranial sinuses).

It is situated in the attached margin of the falx cerebelli, and is generally single, but occasionally there are two.

It commences around the margin of the foramen magnum by several small venous channels, one of which joins the terminal part of the transverse sinus; it communicates with the posterior internal vertebral venous plexuses and ends in the confluence of the sinuses.

Occipital sinuses were discovered by Guichard Joseph Duverney.

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Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 658 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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