Preoccipital notch

About 5 centimetres (2.0 in) in front of the occipital pole of the human brain, on the infero-lateral border is an indentation or notch, named the preoccipital notch.It is considered a landmark because the occipital lobe is located just behind the line that connects that notch with the parietoccipital sulcus.This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 818 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)This neuroanatomy article is a stub.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
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