Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Occipital lobe

The posterior part of each hemisphere, below the parieto-occipital sulcus, resting on the tentorium cerebelli.

Key points

• Visual cortex around the calcarine sulcus.
• Posterior cerebral artery.
• Contains the posterior horn of the lateral ventricle.
• Cortex = grey matter on the surface, white matter beneath.
• CNS myelin: oligodendrocytes.

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Features · Blood supply · Histology · Development

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1562–1564, 1643
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 17, PDF p. 335
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 9, PDF pp. 163, 169–170

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