Taber's Medical Dictionary
Blumenbach clivus
(bloom′ĕn-bok″ )
[Johann F. Blumenbach, Ger. physiologist and anthropologist, 1752-1840]
The sloping part of the sphenoid bone behind the posterior clinoid processes.
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Blumenbach Clivus." Taber's Medical Dictionary Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/741580/all/Blumenbach_clivus.
Blumenbach clivus. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/741580/all/Blumenbach_clivus. Accessed October 8, 2026.
Blumenbach clivus. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/741580/all/Blumenbach_clivus
Blumenbach Clivus [Internet]. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2026 October 08]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/741580/all/Blumenbach_clivus.
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