Head

Question 1

What does the dura mater line?

Answer 1

Inner cortical table of cranial cavity venous sinus runs between endosteal and meningeal layers

Question 2

What is the falx cerebri?

Answer 2

Projection of the inner layer of dura mater that extends into the longitudinal fissure attaches to crista galli of ethmoid bone

Question 3

What is the tentorium cerebellum?

Answer 3

Dura mater partition that separates the occipital lobes from cerebellum attaches to clinics processes of sphenoid bone

Question 4

What is the diaphragma sellae?

Answer 4

A reflection of dura mater that forms roof of sella turcica and covers pituitary gland

Question 5

Where does the diaphragma sellae lie?

Answer 5

Between anterior margins of tentorium cerebelli

Question 6

What is the falx cerebelli?

Answer 6

Short vertically orientated dura mater partition extending from tentorium cerebelli attaches to internal occipital crest separates cerebellum hemispheres

Question 7

What is the arachnoid mater In direct contact with?

Answer 7

Meningeal layer of dura mater

Question 8

What is contained in the subarachnoid space?

Answer 8

Csf and blood vessels

Question 9

What does the Pia mater follow?

Answer 9

Follows cerebral convolutions gyri and sulci

Question 10

What are subarachnoid cisterns?

Answer 10

Dilated regions of the subarachnoid space where can pools

Cisterns Magna
Cistern of great cerebral vein
Parrocallosal 
Chiasmatic
Interpeduncular
Pontine

Question 11

What are arachnoid villi/ granulations?

Answer 11

Projections of the arachnoid mater that perforate the dura mater and project into superior sagittal sinus

Question 12

What does the lateral ventricle consist of?

Answer 12

Paired structure with a body anterior inferior and posterior horns each horn occupies a different lobe of the cerebrum

Question 13

What is a trigone?

Answer 13

Junction all zone between the body and inferior and posterior horns

Question 14

Where do the intervertricular foramen a extend?

Answer 14

Between the third ventricle and one of the lateral ventricles

Question 15

Where is the third ventricle located?

Answer 15

Between the right and left diencephalic structures

Question 16

Where does the cerebral aqueduct extend?

Answer 16

Through a narrow elongated passage of the midbrain to Te third and fourth ventricles

Question 17

Where is the fourth ventricle located?

Answer 17

Surrounded by the cerebellum, pond and medulla oblongata continuous with the central canal and has two apertures median and two lateral

Question 18

What cisterns the fourth ventricle communicate with?

Answer 18

Cistern Magna and subarachnoid space around the brain stem

Question 19

Where does the central camp of the medulla course?

Answer 19

Continuous with fourth ventricle and continues into spinal cord

Question 20

Where are the choroid plexuses situated?

Answer 20

Roobe of third and fourth ventricles in the floor of body and roof of inferior horn of each lateral ventricle

Question 21

What are cerebral hemispheres?

Answer 21

Paired largest portion of the brain each hemisphere contains a single lateral ventricle

Question 22

What type of matter is in the cerebrum?

Answer 22

Grey matter in cerebral cortex and basal nuclei and white in the rest of the cerebrum

Question 23

What is the corpus callosum?

Answer 23

Sheet of commissural nerve fibres (white matter) which unite left and right cerebral hemispheres forms roof of the bodies of lateral ventricles

Question 24

What are the four parts of the corpus callosum?

Answer 24

Rostrum and genu (connection between frontal lobes)
Body connection between parietal lobes
Splenium joins occipital lobes

Question 25

What is the septum pellucidum?

Answer 25

Double layered partition that seperate a the lateral ventricles

Question 26

What are the functional lobes of the cerebrum?

Answer 26

Frontal parietal temporal occipital and insula

Question 27

What are cerebral sulci and gyri?

Answer 27

Groove between silk and surface folds of the cerebral hemispheres

Question 28

Where does the longitudinal how and lie superior to?

Answer 28

Contains falx cerebri and superior to corpus callosum

Question 29

What seperates the temporal lobe from the parietal and frontal?

Answer 29

Lateral fissure insula located deep to this sulcus

Question 30

What is the central sulcus?

Answer 30

Recess located between frontal and parietal lobes

Question 31

What are the basal nuclei?

Answer 31

Collection of nuclei that lie deep within cerebral hemispheres

Question 32

Two basal nuclei?

Answer 32

Lentiform nucleus grey matter Caudate nucleus consist of anterior head body and posterior tail contribute to the lateral walls anterior horns of the lateral ventricles and rooted of inferior horns head buoys into anterior horn of lateral ventricles

Question 33

What is the diencephalon surrounded by?

Answer 33

Third ventricle and contains thalamus epithalamis and hypothalamus

Question 34

What is the thalamus?

Answer 34

Largest part of the diencephalon located medial to basal nuclei lies lateral to third ventricle forms majority of its walls

Question 35

What is the interthalamic adhesion?

Answer 35

Bridge between the two thalami

Question 36

What is the internal capsule?

Answer 36

Area of white matter that allows nerve fibres access to and from cerebral cortex via corona radiata Consists of an anterior limb body and posterior limb

Question 37

Where does the posterior and anterior limb lie?

Answer 37

Between basal nuclei an thalamus Between caudate nucleus and lentiform nucleus

Question 38

Where is the hypothalamus situated?

Answer 38

Anteroinferior to thalamus forms anterior portion of lateral walls of third ventricle

Question 39

What is the epithalamus?

Answer 39

Most posterior part of the diencephalon consists of the pineal gland and a collection of nuclei

Question 40

What is contained In the midbrain?

Answer 40

Cerebral peduncle a superior and inferior colliculi of the tectum and encloses the cerebral aqueduct

Question 41

What are the cerebral peduncles?

Answer 41

Anteriorly located seperates by interpendicular fossa connects brain stem to internal capsule of cerebrum

Question 42

What is the posterior portion of the midbrain?

Answer 42

The tectum composed of four colliculi two superior and two inferior

Question 43

What is functionally linked to the basal nuclei?

Answer 43

Substantia nuclei

Question 44

What lies anterior to the cerebellum and forms the superior wall of the fourth ventricle?

Answer 44

Pons

Question 45

What are the two parts of the medulla?

Answer 45

Open (superior half contributes to anterior wall of fourth ventricle) Closed ( inferior half encloses the central canal)

Question 46

What are the external features of the medulla oblongata?

Answer 46

Paired pyramids and olives lie on the ventral surface and contain axons of the corticospinal tract

Question 47

Features of the cerebellum?

Answer 47

Cerebellum hemispheres Vermis (median portion that bridges cerebellum hemispheres) Folia( thin flat folds of the cerebellum) Fissures Fourth ventricle

Question 48

What are cerebral peduncles?

Answer 48

Trunks of white matter which connect cerebellum to all parts of the brainstem and contribute to the formation of the roof and walls of the fourth ventricle

Question 49

what do the superior cerebellar peduncles connect to?

Answer 49

Run between cerebellum and midbrain

Question 50

What do the memiddle cerebral peduncles run through?

Answer 50

Run between the cerebrum and pons

Question 51

Where do the inferior cerebral peduncles run?

Answer 51

Between the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata