sella turcica in dogs

The sella turcica is a saddle-shaped depression in the sphenoid bone at the base of the human skull. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the sella turcica is

The sella turcica is a saddle-shaped depression in the sphenoid bone at the base of the human skull. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the sella turcica is

It sits in the head, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the sella turcica connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of basicranium, bone element and chondrocranium, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the sella turcica. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as Turkey Chair, suprasellar and turkish saddle. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003689, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: basicranium, bone element, chondrocranium, organ and sphenoid bone.
A kind of: anatomical structure, endochondral bone, facial bone and neurocranium bone.

Questions

Where is the sella turcica?

What does the sella turcica connect to?

Part of: basicranium, bone element, chondrocranium, organ and sphenoid bone.

Is the sella turcica the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.