SKULL

DR: Yasser Seddeg

 NEUROCRANIUM
(CRANIAL VAULT)

Houses and protect the brain

FRONTAL

OCCIPITAL
UNPAIRED
BONES
SPHENOID

ETHMOID

PARIETAL
PAIRED
BONES
TEMPORAL
VISCEROCRANIUM
(FACE & JAW)

MANDIBLE UNPAIRED
BONES
VOMER

MAXILLA

ZYGOMATIC

NASAL
PAIRED
BONES
LACRIMAL

PALATINE

INFERIOR CONCHA
SUTURES Coronal

Sagittal

Squamosal Lambdoidal
FONTANELLS
metopic suture

Anterior

Sphenoid

Mastoid
Posterior
 Orbits NORMA FRONTALIS

Frontal

Nasal

Zygomatic

Maxillary

Piriform Mandible
Aperture
 FACIAL FORAMINA

Supraorbital
V1 Ophthalmic

Infraorbital

V2 Maxillary

Mental
V3 Mandibular

TRIGEMINAL NERVE
( CN V )
 parietal
frontal

ethmoid

lacrimal squamous
n sph
zyg occipital

maxilla Mastoid process

Styloid process
Zygomatic arch
mandible
 RADIOGRAPHIC AND CRANIOMETRIC LANDMARKS
Bregma VERTEX (highest point)

Glabella
P Lambda
F

Nasion
T
Ant. Nasal S
spine O
Z

Max Inion

Menton
Mand Pterion
Figure 7.3e
 INCISIVE CANAL
GREATER WING PALATINE PROCESS
OF MAXILLA
PTERYGOID M HORIZONTAL PROCESS
PROCESS
OF PALATINE BONE
P
MANDIBULAR S CHOANA
FOSSA V BODY OF SPHENOID
T
STYLOID FORAMEN LACERUM
PROCESS FORAMEN OVALE
EXTERNAL FORAMEN SPINOSUM
AUDITORY
MEATUS FORAMEN MAGNUM

MASTOID INF. NUCHAL LINE

PROCESS O

Carotid canal SUP. NUCHAL LINE

Cranial Vault

CN I
Ant. CN II - VI
Mid.

Post.
CN VII-XII
 Sagittal Section
Sphenoid

Temporal
Lesser wing
Ethmoid
ANT.
Crista Galli C.F. MID.
Cribriform Plate C.F.
Perpendicular
POST.
Plate
C.F.
Petrous
ridge
Clivus
(slope)
Vomer (plow)
Palatine
 Lesser wing

Greater wings

Figure 7.4b
 Bones CRANIAL CAVITY Fossae
Frontal
Cribiform plate

Ethmoid Anterior
Superior orbital
fissure
Optic canal
Sphenoid Foramen
rotundum
Middle
Temporal Foramen ovale
Foramen
spinosum
Carotid canal

Parietal Foramen lacerum

Posterior
Internal acoustic
meatus
Jugular foramen
Occipital
Hypoglossal canal