neurocranium

Subdivision of skeletal system that surrounds and protects the brain. Includes the skull base, sensory capsules and the central part of the skull roof. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the neurocranium is

Subdivision of skeletal system that surrounds and protects the brain. Includes the skull base, sensory capsules and the central part of the skull roof. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the human body.

Where the neurocranium is

It sits in the head, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What the neurocranium connects to

The atlas records 28 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of cranium.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the neurocranium. 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 brain box, brain case, brain pan and braincase. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001703, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cranium.
• A kind of: primary subdivision of skull.
• contains: alisphenoid bone, basicranium, basioccipital bone, basiotic bone, basisphenoid bone and body of sphenoid, and 19 more.
• Develops from: cartilaginous neurocranium.

Questions

Where is the neurocranium?

It sits in the head, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What does the neurocranium connect to?

Part of: cranium.

Is the neurocranium 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.