Chapter 14 Flashcards
5 major regions of the brain
- cerebrum
- diencephalon
- brain stem
- Cerebellum
- spinal cord
cerebrum and cerebellum’s appearance
convoluted
what does the diencephalon include
-2 things
- thalamus (superior portion)
2. hypothalamus (inferior portion)
3 parts of the brainstem
- midbrain or mesencephalon
- pon varolli (bridge)
- Medulla oblongata
Nervous system forms from
a hollow tube called the neural tube
what does the ___ form into at birth?
- telencephalon
- diencephalon
- mesencephalon
- metencephalon
- myelencephalon
- cerebrum
- diencephalon
- midbrain
- cerebellum and pons
- medulla oblongata
2 things that protect the brain and spinal cord
- bones
2. meninges
6 bones that protect the brain
-what protects the spinal cord
- frontal
- parietal
- occipital
- ethmoid
- sphenoid
- temporal
- it is within the vertebral canal; adult: C1 through L1 or L2
Meninges
- definition
- 3 layers
- connective tissue layer
- Dura mater (outer, inner fibrous layer, dura sinus)
- Arachnoid mater (arachnoid membrane, arachnoid trabeculae)
- Pia mater
- Dura mater (outer, inner fibrous layer, dura sinus)
what does dura sinus contain
fluids and blood
pia mater
sticks to surface of brain
Cranial meninges
- no epidural space
- Space within dura mater
- 3 folds of dura mater
what is the outer fibrous layer of the dura mater fused to?
periosteum of the cranial bones
space within dura mater is called what two things?
- superior sagittal sinus
2. Arachnoid villi
superior sagittal sinus
- how big
- function
- largest sinus
- delivers venous blood to internal jugular vein
Arachnoid villi
- function
- what happens to CSF
- connects sub arachnoid space into superior sagittal sinus
- CSF is reabsorbed into venus blood at arachnoid villi
3 fold of dura mater
- definition
- 3 folds
- subdives the cranial cavity
- limits excessive movements of the brain within the cranial cavity
- falx cerebri
- falx cerebelli
- tentorium cerebelli
- falx cerebri
falx cerebri
between cerebral hemispheres in longitudinal fissure and attaches to the crista galli
falx cerebelli
divides cerebellar hemispheres
tentorium cerebelli
separates the cerebral and cerebellar hemispheres
cerebrospinal fluid
- definition
- 3 functions
- production
- fluid that surrounds and bathes the entire brain and spinal cord
- acts like a cushion (protects brain from sudden jolts and shocks
- supports brain
- transports chemical messengers, nutrients and waste products
- acts like a cushion (protects brain from sudden jolts and shocks
- produced in chloroid plexus
where does the chloroid plxus originate
in the 3rd ventricle, lateral ventricle and 4th ventricle
ventricles within the brain
-7
- lateral ventricle
- 3rd ventricle
- 4th ventricle
- medial aperature
- lateral aperature
- aqueduct of slyvius
- foramen of monroe
circulation of CSF
-5 steps
- lateral ventricle (CSF is produced)
- 3rd ventricle (CSF is produced)
- 4th ventricle (CSF is produced)
- CSF flows into subarachnoid space through the lateral and medial aperatures, and into the central canal of the spinal cord
- excess CSF drains into the arachnoid vili and then into the dural venous sinuses
Cerebrum
-parts
- surface gray matter (cerebral cortex)
- white matter
- deep gray matter (basal ganglia)
Surface gray matter
- superficial layer
- contains neuron cell bodies and unmyelinated axons
white matter contains?
-4 structures
myelinated axons
- internal white matter
- corpus callosum
- septum pellucidum
- internal capsule
- internal white matter
sulcus or sulci
shallow groove
fissure
deep groove
gyrus or gyri
elevated ridges
8 surface features of the cerebrum
- precentral sulcus
- precentral gyrus
- central sulcus
- postcentral gyrus
- post central sulcus
- parieto-occipital sulcus (not seen externally)
- Lateral cerebral sulcus (fissure)
- Longitudinal cerebral fissure