{"id":1183,"date":"2015-10-17T09:43:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T16:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2015-11-06T17:42:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T00:42:38","slug":"sella-turcica-of-the-sphenoid-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2015\/10\/17\/sella-turcica-of-the-sphenoid-bone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sella Turcica of the Sphenoid Bone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This structure is names for its resemblance to a &#8220;turkish chair&#8221; and is found as a saddle-shaped depression on the sphenoid bone. \u00a0 The indentation (or the seat) is where the pituitary gland is located.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/skull-internal1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1206\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/skull-internal1-336x500.jpg\" alt=\"skull-internal\" width=\"336\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/skull-internal1-336x500.jpg 336w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/skull-internal1-168x250.jpg 168w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/skull-internal1.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To find the sella turcica,\u00a0locate the sphenoid bone from the inside of the skull. \u00a0 The sphenoid bone is named for its shape, which resembles a butterfly. \u00a0 A portion of the sphenoid bone can be seen within the eye socket and in front of the temporal bone as shown on this animation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1184\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1184\" class=\"wp-image-1184 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/Sphenoid_bone_-_animation.gif\" alt=\"sphenoid\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sphenoid_bone_-_animation.gif<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This structure is names for its resemblance to a &#8220;turkish chair&#8221; and is found as a saddle-shaped depression on the sphenoid bone. \u00a0 The indentation (or the seat) is where the pituitary gland is located. To find the sella turcica,\u00a0locate the sphenoid bone from the inside of the skull. \u00a0 The sphenoid bone is named for its shape, which resembles a butterfly. \u00a0 A portion of the sphenoid bone can be seen within the eye socket and in front of the temporal bone as shown on this animation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[138,182,180,147,179,151,181],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-bone","tag-pituitary","tag-sella","tag-skull","tag-sphenoid","tag-temporal","tag-turcica","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}