clivus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

/ˈklaɪvəs/

clivus clivi

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

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clival

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