Brain Flashcards
What is the primary sensory relay station to the brain?
Thalamus
What part of the brain controls hunger?
Hypothalamus
The swallowing center: 2nd stage of deglutination is located in?
Medulla
Sectioning the infundibular stalk of hypothalamus with normal hypophyseal tract leads to a decrease in?
ADH
Infundibular is a connection between?
HT & PP
What divides the diecephalon into 2?
3rd ventricle
What lines the ventricle of the brain?
Ependymal cells
What makes up BBB?
Astrocytes, endothelial cells in capillaries ocnnected by tight junction, water lipid pass or selective transport
Largest paransal sinus?
Maxillary sinus
Where does the maxillary sinus drain into?
Semilar hiatus of the middle meatus
Where does nasolacrimal drain 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 ethmoid sinus?
Orbit
Anterior cerebral artery supplies what lobes?
Frontal & Parietal
Arachnoid villa & granulation transport CSF from subarachnoid space to?
Venous system
Increase in CSF pressure causes?
Brain herniation
Vertebral artery pass through what foramen?
Foramen Magnum
What is not part of the circle of wilis
Basilar artery
Branches of the maxillary A go through all of the following foramen except?
Foramen lacerum
Maxillary Vein & superior temporal veins drain into?
Retromandibular vein
Each of the following structure lie between the hyoglossus & mylohyoid muscles except?
Lingual nerve
What muscles goes between superior & middle pharyngeal constrictor muscles?
Stylopharygeus muscle
Structures that make up the splenoid bone.
2 greater wings, 2 lesser wings, pterygoid process
What forms the superior orbital fissure?
Greater & lesser wing of sphenoid
What’s the medial border or infratemporal fossa?
Pterygomaxillary fissure
Guy shot in the back of the head, bullets exits eyebrows. Which bone is least likely to get damaged?
Maxilla
Foramen ovale is located in the ?
Greater wings of sphenoids
All of the following pass through medial & lateral pterygoid excpet?
Buccal nerve: pass through lateral pterygoid heads
What’s anterior to the pharyngeal tonsils?
Palatoglossal fold
Where is synovial fluid produced?
Internal synovial layer of fibrous capsule
What cells are responsible for synovial fluid production?
Type B synoviocytes
