skull base
Brain's bony platform
The skull base is the bony floor of the cranium, the complex curved platform separating the brain above from the facial structures below.
It contains numerous openings through which nerves, blood vessels, and the spinal cord pass.
In medical contexts, skull base surgery addresses tumors, infections, or abnormalities in this anatomically challenging region where vital structures cluster densely together.
- cribriform platePerforated ethmoid bone section
- meningiomaTumor from protective brain layers
- neurosurgeryMedical field treating brain surgically
- cranial nerveNerve originating in brainstem
- brainstemLower neural trunk
petrous · dura mater · carotid · dura · jugular · endoscopic · bone flap · posterior fossa · structural stability · tumor · cerebrospinal · fracture · head trauma · basilar · nerve · surgical · sinus · cranium
- skull anatomycranium, frontal bone, braincase, mandible, maxilla
- skull partsfrontal bone, coronal suture, lambdoid suture, fontanelle, braincase
- craniocervical junctiondens, cruciate ligament, occiput