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Latin | sinus occipitalis |
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The occipital sinus courses through falx cerebelli, inferior to the straight sinus. It drains blood from veins inferior to the cerebellum.
Details from Gray's anatomy
The occipital sinus is the smallest of 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.
See also
This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 658 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)