The peculiar case of skull

The proportions of the various features of skull is different from what we'd expect them to be based on the external appearance of face. This is a very important observation to be made before learning about the structures in head.

The Halloween melon mask we make, is inaccurate. The skull is not just a sphere, it's a sphere with an equatorial plate. The nose and eye lie on the same line (this plate) though their geometry dislocates them anteriorly.

This insight must make things clear about the middle cranial fossa