What bones form the cranial floor?

Skull base
What bones form the cranial floor?

Base of the skull, inner surface

What bones form the cranial floor?

Base of the skull, inferior or outer surface. Showing various muscle attachments.

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Identifiers
Latinbasis cranii
externa et. interna
MeSHD019291
TA98A02.1.00.044
TA2447
FMA52801
Anatomical terms of bone

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The base of skull, also known as the cranial base or the cranial floor, is the most inferior area of the skull. It is composed of the endocranium and the lower parts of the calvaria.

Contents

  • 1 Structure
    • 1.1 Bones
    • 1.2 Sinuses
    • 1.3 Foramina of the skull
    • 1.4 Sutures
    • 1.5 Other
  • 2 Additional images

Structure[edit]

What bones form the cranial floor?

Base of the skull. Inferior surface, attachment of muscles marked in red.

Structures found at the base of the skull are for example:

Bones[edit]

There are five bones that make up the base of the skull:

  • Ethmoid bone
  • Sphenoid bone
  • Occipital bone
  • Frontal bone
  • Temporal bone

What bones form the cranial floor?

Exobasis

Sinuses[edit]

  • Occipital sinus
  • Superior sagittal sinus
  • Superior petrosal sinus

Foramina of the skull[edit]

  • Foramen cecum
  • Optic foramen
  • Foramen lacerum
  • Foramen rotundum
  • Foramen magnum
  • Foramen ovale
  • Jugular foramen
  • Internal auditory meatus
  • Mastoid foramen
  • Sphenoidal emissary foramen
  • Foramen spinosum

What bones form the cranial floor?

Endobasis-resistances beams

What bones form the cranial floor?

Endobasis-resistances nodes

Sutures[edit]

  • Frontoethmoidal suture
  • Sphenofrontal suture
  • Sphenopetrosal suture
  • Sphenoethmoidal suture
  • Petrosquamous suture
  • Sphenosquamosal suture

Other[edit]

What bones form the cranial floor?

The foramina in the base of the skull are exit and entry points for veins, arteries and cranial nerves.

What bones form the cranial floor?

The cranial nerves as they exit through various foramina.

  • Sphenoidal lingula
  • Subarcuate fossa
  • Dorsum sellae
  • Jugular process
  • Petro-occipital fissure
  • Condylar canal
  • Jugular tubercle
  • Tuberculum sellae
  • Carotid groove
  • Fossa hypophyseos
  • Posterior clinoid processes
  • Sigmoid sulcus
  • Internal occipital protuberance
  • Internal occipital crest
  • Ethmoidal spine
  • Vestibular aqueduct
  • Chiasmatic groove
  • Middle clinoid process
  • Groove for sigmoid sinus
  • Trigeminal ganglion
  • Middle cranial fossa
  • Anterior cranial fossa
  • Middle meningeal artery
  • Cribriform plate
  • Posterior cranial fossa
  • Nasociliary nerve
  • Hypoglossal canal

Additional images[edit]

  • What bones form the cranial floor?

    Base of the skull. Upper surface

  • What bones form the cranial floor?

    Base of skull

  • What bones form the cranial floor?

    Base of skull - crista galli, cribriform plate and foramen cecum

  • What bones form the cranial floor?

    Base of skull - sella turcica

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    The anterior, middle and posterior cranial fossa in different colors

What bones form the cranial floor?

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Compound structures of skull

Neurocranium

  • Calvaria
    • Diploë
  • Asterion
  • Pterion
  • Stephanion
  • Inion
  • Bregma
  • Lambda
  • Fossae
    • anterior
    • middle
    • posterior
  • cranial cavity
  • Base of skull
  • Fontanelle
    • anterior
    • posterior
    • sphenoidal
    • mastoid

Facial skeleton

  • Nasion
  • Gonion

Both

  • dacryon
  • zygomatic arch
  • temporal fossa
  • infratemporal fossa
  • pterygomaxillary fissure
  • pterygopalatine fossa

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What bones form the cranial floor?

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  • Terminologia Anatomica

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Which of the following bones are part of the cranial floor?

(b) The complex floor of the cranial cavity is formed by the frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid, temporal, and occipital bones.

What bones form the floor of the cranial vault?

The cranial vault consists mainly of the flat bones : paired frontal and parietal bones; the squamous parts of the temporal bone; and interparietal part of occipital bone. All of these bones are formed by intramembranous (IM) ossification.

What is the cranial floor?

The base of skull, also known as the cranial base or the cranial floor, is the most inferior area of the skull. It is composed of the endocranium and the lower parts of the calvaria.

Which bones form the cranium?

There are eight cranial bones, each with a unique shape:.
Frontal bone. This is the flat bone that makes up your forehead. ... .
Parietal bones. This a pair of flat bones located on either side of your head, behind the frontal bone..
Temporal bones. ... .
Occipital bone. ... .
Sphenoid bone. ... .
Ethmoid bone..