Neurocranium

Looks like

The braincase: the rounded vault and base of the skull made of the frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, sphenoid and ethmoid bones.

What it does

Encloses and protects the brain and gives passage to the nerves and vessels leaving it.

Keeping it well

Skull fractures matter mainly for the bleeding and brain injury beneath. In babies, early fusion of its sutures (craniosynostosis) misshapes the head.

Related conditions

• Achondroplasia
• Acromegaly
• Brain abscess
• Fractures
• Fragility fracture
• Frailty & falls in older age
• Hyperparathyroidism
• Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
• Osteomalacia & rickets
• Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
• Osteoporosis
• Paget's disease of bone
• Sarcoma
• Traumatic brain injury (moderate to severe)
• Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
• Vitamin D deficiency