Dural venous sinuses at skull base, seen from above

About this plate

Dural venous sinuses at skull base, seen from above. Superior view of the skull.

Region

skull

Structure

skull base

View

superior

System

veins, dural sinuses, arteries, muscle, special sense, bone

Focus

dural venous sinuses of the cranial base, cavernous sinus, petrosal sinuses, orbital venous drainage

Structures labelled on this plate

• Levator palpebræ
• Rectus superior
• Bulb of Eye
• Sup. oph- thalmic vein
• Sphenoparietal sinus
• Middle meningeal sinus
• Cavernous
• Cavernous sinus
• Intercavernous sinus
• Internal carotid art
• Superior petrosal sinus
• Occipital sinus
• Basilar plexus
• Inferior petrosal sinus
• Transverse sinus
• End of straight sinus
• Superior sagittal sinus
• Vertebral artery

Source: After Gray's Anatomy (1918). Public domain (Gray's Anatomy, 1918), modernized rendering.