pericranium

The fifth layer is the Periosteum of the skull, also referred to as pericranium.

Both branches supply small twigs to the pericranium.

P: The pericranium is the periosteum of the skull bones and provides nutrition to the bone and the capacity for repair.

L: The loose areolar connective tissue layer provides an easy plane of separation between the upper three layers and the pericranium.

The deep temporal arteries, two in number, anterior and posterior, ascend between the Temporalis and the pericranium.

Then he plunged the needle deep into the skin of the scalp, making sure he picked up pericranium, and brought the needle out in the wound.

Periosteum that covers the outer surface of the bones of the skull is known as "pericranium" except when in reference to the layers of the scalp.

The frontal branch of superficial temporal artery (anterior temporal) runs tortuously upward and forward to the forehead, supplying the muscles, integument, and pericranium in this region, and anastomosing with the supraorbital and frontal arteries.

The superior sagittal sinus receives the superior cerebral veins, veins from the diploë and dura mater, and, near the posterior extremity of the sagittal suture, veins from the pericranium, which pass through the parietal foramina.

It leaves the orbit at its medial angle by piercing the orbital septum with the supratrochlear nerve, and, ascending on the forehead, supplies the integument, muscles, and pericranium, anastomosing with the supraorbital artery, and with the artery of the opposite side.

It is closely connected to the integument by the firm, dense, fibro-fatty layer which forms the superficial fascia of the scalp: it is attached to the pericranium by loose cellular tissue, which allows the aponeurosis, carrying with it the integument to move through a considerable distance.