Braincase

Looks like

Eight bones forming the vault and floor around the brain, fused at jagged seams.

What it does

The armour of the brain, and the floor the cranial nerves pass through.

Keeping it well

Helmets; a skull fracture matters for what it does to the brain underneath, not for the bone.

Its parts

• Frontal bone
• Parietal bones
• Occipital bone
• Temporal bones
• Sphenoid bone
• Ethmoid bone

Related conditions

• Achondroplasia
• Acromegaly
• Brain abscess
• Cholesteatoma
• 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