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- Pacchionian foramen means: incisurae tentorii (aka tentorial notch) a thick opening in the center of the diaphragm of sella through which the infundibulum...
- Arachnoid granulations (also arachnoid villi, and pacchionian granulations or bodies) are small protrusions of the arachnoid mater (the thin second layer...
- hemisphere open into these lacunæ, and numerous arachnoid granulations (Pacchionian bodies) project into them from below. The superior sagittal sinus receives...
- marked in the skulls of old persons, for the arachnoid granulations (Pacchionian bodies). In the groove is the internal opening of the parietal foramen...
- meningeal layer of the brain, the dura mater. Pacchioni's granulations (or Pacchionian bodies), where the arachnoid layer protrudes through the dura, are named...