The Spinal and Cranial Cavities Make Up What Cavity

It is a bit of an oversimplification to say that the CNS is what is inside these two cavities and the peripheral nervous system is outside of them but that is one way to start to think about it. Inside the skull the floor of the cranial cavity is subdivided into three cranial fossae spaces which increase in depth from anterior to posterior see Figure 76 Figure 78b and Figure 711.

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The brain is contained within the cranial cavity of the skull and the spinal cord is contained within the vertebral cavity of the vertebral column.

. Since the brain occupies these areas the shape of each conforms to the shape of the brain regions that it contains.

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