Cranial fossae:
- Anterior cranial fossa
- Middle cranial fossa
- Posterior cranial fossa
Osteology
Frontal bone:
- Glabella
- Superciliary arch
- Supraorbital notch (foramen)
- Frontal crest
- Superior orbital fissure
Ethmoid bone:
- Cribriform plate
- Crista galli
Sphenoid bone:
- Greater wing
- Lesser wing
- Optic canal
- Superior orbital fissure
- Tuberculum sellae
- Hypophyseal fossa
- Foramen rotundum
- Foramen ovale
- Foramen spinosum
- Groove for middle meningeal artery
- Medial & lateral pterygoid plates
Occipital bone:
- Clivus
- External occipital protuberance
- Internal occipital protuberance
- Foramen lacerum
- Hypoglossal canal
- Foramen magnum
- Groove for transverse sinus
- Groove for sigmoid sinus
- Occipital condyles
Parietal bone:
- Superior temporal line
- Inferior temporal line
- Groove for middle meningeal artery
Mandible:
- Alveolar process
- Mental foramen
- Mental protuberance
- Ramus
- Coronoid process
- Mandibular notch
- Condylar process
- Head (condyle)
- Neck
- Angle
- Body
Maxilla:
- Frontal process
- Infraorbital foramen
- Alveolar process
- Anterior nasal aperture
- Incisive foramen
- Zygomatic bone
- Frontal process
- Temporal process
Temporal bone:
- Squamous part / Petrous portion
- External acoustic meatus
- Mastoid process
- Zygomatic process
- Carotid canal
- Internal acoustic meatus
- Jugular foramen
- Stylomastoid foramen
- Styloid process
- Mandibular fossa
- Articular tubercle
Nasal bone
Vomer
Lacrimal bone
Inferior nasal concha
Palatine bone:
- Greater palatine foramen
- Lesser palatine foramen
Sutures
- Coronal suture
- Sagittal suture
- Lambdoid suture
- Squamosal suture
Important Landmarks
- Glabella
- Bregma
- Nasion
- Pterion
- Lambda
- Vertex
Meningeal features
- Dura mater
- Epidural (extradural) space
- Cerebral falx (Falx cerebri)
- Cerebellar tentorium (Tentorium cerebelli)
- Tentorial notch
- Arachnoid mater
- Cerebral veins
- Subarachnoid space
- Pia mater
Dural Venous Sinuses
- Superior sagittal sinus
- Inferior sagittal sinus
- Straight sinus
- Cavernous sinus
- Confluence of sinuses
- Cavernous sinus
- Sigmoid sinus
- Diaphragma sellae
Arteries
- Internal carotid artery
- Middle meningeal artery
Nerves & associated structures
- Cranial Nerves I – XII
Clinal Correlates
- Head Injuries and Intracranial Hemorrhage
- Epidural hematoma
- Subdural hematoma
- Fracture of Pterion
- Fractures of calvaria
- Fractures of maxillae and associated Bones (Le Forte fractures)
- Fractures of mandible
- Basilar skull fractures
- Pituitary tumor