Tags: Anatomical Structure, Bone.

In the sphenoid bone behind the chiasmatic groove and the tuberculum sellae is a deep depression or fossa the sella turcica the deepest part of which lodges the pituitary gland (hypophysis) and is also known as the hypophysial fossa.

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