Base of skull

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Base of skull
Base of the skull. Upper surface
Base of the skull. Inferior surface, attachment of muscles marked in red
Latin basis cranii

The base of skull is the most inferior area of the skull, composed of the endocranium and lower parts of the skull roof.

Structures

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

Bones

Exobasis

Sinuses

Foramina of the skull

Endobasis-resistances beams
Endobasis-resistances nodes

Sutures

Other

Additional images

  • Base of skull

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

  • Base of skull - tuberculum sellae and hypophyseal fossa

  • Base of skull - dorsum sellae

  • Base of skull - sella turcica

  • Anterior cranial fossa

  • Anterior cranial fossa

  • Middle cranial fossa

  • Middle cranial fossa

  • Posterior cranial fossa

  • Posterior cranial fossa

Bones of head and neck: compound structures of skull (TA A02.1.00.002–052, GA 2.178–199)
Neurocranium
Facial skeleton
Both

M: BON/CAR

anat (c/f/k/f, u, t/p, l)/phys/devp/cell

noco/cong/tumr, sysi/epon, injr

proc, drug (M5)

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