CSF - Cells and Tissues of the nervous system Part 6

Question 1

Is CSF involved in intracranial pressure?

Answer 1

yes

Question 2

Where is CSF found?

Answer 2

inside ventricles

between pia and arachnoid

Question 3

Where is it formed?

Answer 3

by choroid plexus in each ventricle

Question 4

Where is it absorbed?

Answer 4

by arachnoid villi into sagittal sinus

Question 5

Answer 5

choroid plexus

Question 6

What is the pathway of the CSF?

Answer 6

into 3rd ventricle
then via the cerebral aqueduct into the 4th ventricle

Question 7

Where does the majority of CSF go?

Answer 7

into the sub-arachnoid space

Question 8

What is the role of CSF?

Answer 8

help the brain float within the cranial cavity

prevent sit from crushing itself wit its own weight

Question 9

How does the CSF go into the superior sagittal sinus?

Answer 9

some of the pia and arachnoid project into the superior sagittal sinus

projections called villi

Question 10

What are the white projections?

Answer 10

arachnoid villi

Question 11

Where does the CSF leave the ventricular system?

Answer 11

at the 3 holes at the roof of the 4th ventricles

goes into sub-arachnoid space