11649 IUPAC Gold Book - brain herniation 10.1351/goldbook.11649 11649 current 1 Movement of part of the brain across structures within the skull such as a shift across such structures as the falx cerebri, the tentorium cerebelli, and even sometimes through the foramen magnum in the base of the skull (through which the spinal cord connects with the brain). This is caused by high intracranial pressure and may have fatal results. brain https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11647 falx cerebri https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11768 intracranial pressure https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11836 tentorium cerebelli https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12126 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 853 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11649/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11649/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11649/plain Citation: 'brain herniation' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11649 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-15T02:30:44+00:00