clivus

Meanings

Plural: clivi

Noun

Part of the cranium at the skull base, a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellae that slopes obliquely backward.
A road ascending a slope in Ancient Rome.

Origin / Etymology

Derived from Latin clīvus (“slope, hill”).

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