Space inside the skull formed by eight cranial bones known as the neurocranium
Cranial cavity
Body cavities
Cranial cavity
Details
Function
Contains and protects the brain
Identifiers
Latin
cavitas cranii
TA98
A01.1.00.048 A02.1.00.012
TA2
100, 413
FMA
9644
Anatomical terminology
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The cranial cavity, also known as intracranial space, is the space within the skull that accommodates the brain. The skull minus the mandible is called the cranium. The cavity is formed by eight cranial bones known as the neurocranium that in humans includes the skull cap and forms the protective case around the brain. The remainder of the skull is called the facial skeleton. Meninges are protective membranes that surround the brain to minimize damage to the brain in the case of head trauma. Meningitis is the inflammation of meninges caused by bacterial or viral infections.
The cranialcavity, also known as intracranial space, is the space within the skull that accommodates the brain. The skull minus the mandible is called...
abdominal cavity, and houses the organs of reproduction. The dorsal body cavity contains the cranialcavity, and the spinal cavity. The cranialcavity is a...
structures, bringing the outside environment into contact with the cranialcavity is called a compound fracture. Compound fractures can either be clean...
A cranial fossa is formed by the floor of the cranialcavity. There are three distinct cranial fossae: Anterior cranial fossa (fossa cranii anterior)...
The posterior cranial fossa is the part of the cranialcavity located between the foramen magnum, and tentorium cerebelli. It is formed by the sphenoid...
The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of three types of bone: cranial bones, facial bones, and ear ossicles. Two...
The dorsal body cavity is located along the dorsal (posterior) surface of the human body, where it is subdivided into the cranialcavity housing the brain...
rest of the braincase. Animation without left parietal bone, showing cranialcavity and inner surface of base of skull. Inner surface of base of skull....
and hypophysial veins. This depends upon the area of the cranialcavity: in the anterior cranial fossa the anterior meningeal artery (branch from the ethmoidal...
Pneumocephalus is the presence of air or gas within the cranialcavity. It is usually associated with disruption of the skull: after head and facial trauma...
the potential intelligence of the organism. Cranial capacity is often tested by filling the cranialcavity with glass beads and measuring their volume...
tympanic cavity through the petrous part of the temporal bone into the middle cranial fossa of the cranialcavity, then exits the cranialcavity through...
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facial vein and the cavernous sinus. The cavernous sinus lies within the cranialcavity, between layers of the meninges, and is a major conduit of venous drainage...
enters first the cranialcavity and then the nasal cavity. It provides sensory innervation to part of the meninges, parts of the nasal cavity, and part of...
vertebrates, the CNS is contained within the dorsal body cavity, while the brain is housed in the cranialcavity within the skull. The spinal cord is housed in...
anatomicae de durae meningis ... published in Acta Eruditorum, 1703 Cranialcavity Also rarely called meninx fibrosa or pachymeninx "meninges". Oxford...
Cranial nerves are the nerves that emerge directly from the brain (including the brainstem), of which there are conventionally considered twelve pairs...
which connect the anterior cranial fossa with the nasal cavity and transmit the olfactory nerves. Animation. Anterior cranial fossa shown in green. Photo...
nerve into the cranialcavity. The mucosa that lines the nasal cavity extends into its chambers, the paranasal sinuses. The nasal cavity and the paranasal...
lobe the flocculonodular lobe. The cerebellum rests at the back of the cranialcavity, lying beneath the occipital lobes, and is separated from these by the...
Calvary calvaria (skull), a portion of the skull forming the roof of the cranialcavity Calvaria, a former scientific generic name of some tropical trees including...
The facial nerve, also known as the seventh cranial nerve, cranial nerve VII, or simply CN VII, is a cranial nerve that emerges from the pons of the brainstem...
from the transverse sinuses, which track the posterior wall of the cranialcavity, travels inferiorly along the parietal bone, temporal bone and occipital...
carotid (nervous) plexus pass from the neck into (the middle cranial fossa of) the cranialcavity. Observing the trajectory of the canal from exterior to interior...
ethmoid bone of the skull, projecting above the cribriform plate into the cranialcavity. It serves as an attachment for the membranes surrounding the brain...
ganglion, a part of the cervical sympathetic trunk) that enters the cranialcavity through the carotid canal, then passes perpendicular to the carotid...
nasal cavity is a large, air-filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face. The nasal septum divides the cavity into two cavities, also...
34 bones and contains four cavities: the cranialcavity, the orbital cavity, oral, and the nasal cavity. The cranialcavity encloses and protects the brain...