BRAIN Flashcards
What is the primary sensory relay station of the brain (conduit)?
Thalamus
What part of the brain controls hunger?
Hypothalamus
The swallowing center: 2nd stage of deglutination is located?
Medulla
Sectioning of the unfundibular stalk of hypothalamus w/ normal hypophyseal tract leads to a decrease in what hormones?
ADH
Infundibular stalk is what?
connection between HP & PP
What divides the diencephalon into two?
3rd ventricle
What lines the ventricle of the brain?
Ependymal cells
What makes up the blood brain barrier?
Astrocytes, endothelial cells in capillaries connected by tight junction, water/lipids pass or selective transport
Largest paranasal sinus?
Maxillary sinus
Where does the maxillary sinus drain into?
Semilunar hiatus of the middle meatus
Nasolacrimal drains into?
inferior concha
Right maxillary sinus is infected, where does it spread to next?
Right Ethmoid Sinus
What is the outer edge of the lateral wall of the ehmoid sinus?
Orbit
Anterior cerebral artery supplies what lobes?
Fontal & Parietal lobes (medial surfaces of both)
Arachnoid villa & granulation transport CSF from subarachnoid space to ?
venous system