The Skull

This brief video tutorial discusses the skull with focus on bones and sutures and parts associated with cranial nerves and vessels: 0:00. Intro to the skull . Bones of the skull (frontal bone, zygomatic bone, maxilla, parietal bone, temporal bone, sphenoid bone, mandible, occipital bone) 2:03. Sutures. Coronal suture, squamous suture, lambdoid suture, sagittal suture, pterion 3:28. Cranial fossae - 4:16. Anterior cranial fossa. Ethmoid bone, cribriform foramina, lesser wing of sphenoid bone - 5:05. Middle cranial fossa. Optic canal, superior orbital fissure, inferior orbital fissure, sella turcica, carotid canal, foramen rotundum, foramen ovale, foramen spinosum - 9:16 Posterior cranial fossa. internal acoustic meatus, jugular foramen, hypoglossal canal, - 10:52. Base of the skull. styloid process, mastoid process, stylomastoid foramen, foramen magnum 12:22. In-a-Nutshell 12:28. Acknowledgements