Cranial Floor View

The brain case consists of eight bones.

Cranial floor view.

Skull cranial floor bone markings part 2 temporal bone. Or temporal squama pars squamosa. Your cranial bones are eight bones that make up your cranium or skull which supports your face and protects your brain. Since the brain occupies these areas the shape of each conforms to the shape of the brain regions that it contains.

These include the paired parietal and temporal bones plus. The picture also helps us to view the cranial vault in its natural position. Frontal sinus outlined in orange. Frontal bone cranial view frontal sinus.

Lesser wing of sphenoid bone. From a superior view which i m now showing you again looking down at the skull you ve got the anterior cranial fossa which is this part. Trouble seeing the text. The base of the brain case which forms the floor of cranial cavity is subdivided into the shallow anterior cranial fossa the middle cranial fossa and the deep posterior cranial fossa.

This central part of the anterior cranial fossa forms the roof of the nasal cavity. The sella turcica lies within the body of the sphenoid bone which has a wedgelike shape and looks like a key that slots into the floor of the skull. This anterior cranial fossa forms the roof of the nasal cavity and the central part. Cranial floor view of skull.

It has numerous foramina and harbours the pituitary gland. 2005 regents of the university of minnesota. The sphenoid bone is a butterfly shaped cranial bone that is located in the middle of the skull between the frontal and temporal bones. The cranial floor is at a distinct angle starting at the level of the frontal sinus and continuing at an angle to include the small pocket that contains the cerebellum.

We ll go over each of these bones and where they re located. Contact u of m privacy the university of minnesota is an equal. Inside the skull the floor of the cranial cavity is subdivided into three cranial fossae spaces which increase in depth from anterior to posterior see figure 4 figure 6b and figure 9. The pituitary gland is about the size of a pea and is located in the sella turcica saddle shaped bony structure in the sphenoid bone.

You can see this small indentation at the bottom of the neurocranium. Central compartment of the skull base middle cranial fossa which contains the pituitary gland.