sellae turcicae

Noun

sella turcica (plural sellae turcicae or sellæ turcicæ)

1. 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...1884, William Henry Mercur, transl., edited by James Tyson, The Elements of Pathology, Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., № 1012 Walnut Street, translation of Die Elemente der Pathologie by Georg...

   Synonyms:

   sella, sella equina, sella sphenoidalis