cranium

Upper portion of the skull that excludes the mandible (when present in the organism). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cranium is

Upper portion of the skull that excludes the mandible (when present in the organism). The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the human body.

Where the cranium is

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the cranium connects to

The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of skull.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cranium. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as bones of cranium, ossa cranii, set of bones of cranium, skull minus mandible, upper part of skull and calvarium, and 2 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003128, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: skull.
• A kind of: subdivision of skeletal system.
• contains: anterior cranial fossa, cranial bone, cranial fossa, cranial suture, jugular foramen and middle cranial fossa, and 5 more.
• contributes to morphology of: basicranium, cranial suture and vault of skull.

Questions

Where is the cranium?

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the cranium connect to?

Part of: skull.

Is the cranium the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.