PPT Slide

- Meninges

Protection of the Brain

- Skull

- coverings of the

central nervous system

Dura Mater - “hard mother”

- adherent to inner layer

of skull (periosteum)

- folds into the large

spaces between brain areas

to form “dural folds”

- forms structures for the

venous drainage from

the brain

- Venous Sinuses