Anatomy Unit 4

Question 1

What are the brain meninges

Answer 1

Dura Mater (Deep), Arachnoid Mater, Pia Mater (Superficial)

Question 2

What is the Falx cerebri?

Answer 2

Dura mater, separates left and right hemisphere

Question 3

What is Tentorium Cerebelli?

Answer 3

Seperates cerebrum from cerebellum

Question 4

What is Falx cerebelli?

Answer 4

Separates cerebellum: left and right side

Question 5

What are ventricles?

Answer 5

Cavities, all connected together, contain CSF fluid

Question 6

What are the functions of CSF?

Answer 6

buoyancy and protection, waste product removal

Question 7

What is the Choroid Plexus?

Answer 7

tissues, capillaries, pia mater, ependymal cells

Question 8

Where is the Choroid Plexus located?

Answer 8

in lateral ventricles

Question 9

Does the Choroid Plexus produce CSF?

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

what is the blood brain barrier?

Answer 10

protect brain from pathogens, selectively permeable

Question 11

What is the central sulcus?

Answer 11

separates frontal lobe from parietal lobe

Question 12

What is the Transverse Cerebral fissure?

Answer 12

Separates cerebrum from cerebellum

Question 13

What is the longitudinal fissure?

Answer 13

separates cerebrum into right and left hemisphere

Question 14

What is the cerebral cortex?

Answer 14

outer most covering of the brain

Question 15

What does the frontal lobe do?

Answer 15

Movement (motor function), judgement, impulse control

Question 16

What does the parietal lobe do?

Answer 16

sensory processes

Question 17

What does the temporal lobe do?

Answer 17

Hearing, language, emotion

Question 18

What does the occipital lobe do?

Answer 18

vision

Question 19

What are the three functional areas of the cerebral cortex?

Answer 19

Motor, Sensory, assosciation

Question 20

What does the Motor area do?

Answer 20

Control voluntary movement (primary, premotor, broca’s area)

Question 21

what does the primary motor cortex do?

Answer 21

allows conscious control of precise, skilled, voluntary movement

Question 22

What does the the pre motor cortex do?

Answer 22

controls learned, repetitious, patterned motor skills

Question 23

What does the Broca’s area do?

Answer 23

present in left hemisphere, motor speech area that directs muscles of tongue