Meaning of sella turcica | Babel Free

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A saddle-shaped depression in the sphenoid bone of the skull in humans and other hominids.

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“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 turcicæ, so that there was no opportunity for the union of the corresponding halves of the head. There was, however, nothing to prevent⟳ the left half of the head of one embryo from uniting with the right half of the head of the other, to form⟳ a joint face⟳. All double⟳ faces in janus formations are composed partly of one, partly of the other fœtus.”

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