Functions
Functions include protecting the brain and forming a part of the eye sockets.
Disease/ injury/ fractures
The conditions that afflict the bone are trauma and basilar skull fracture. The tumor in the tissues that line the brain near the sphenoid bone is more common in females over the age of 50.
Interesting fact(s)
The sphenoid bone is called the ‘keystone’ of the cranial floor as it is in contact with all of the other skull bones.
