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1
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What are the 3 sections of the skull?

A

Rostral cranial fossa
Middle cranial ofssa
Caudal cranial fossa

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What are the demarcations/what is located within the rostral cranial fossa?

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Everything from cribriform plate to optic chiasm

Olfactory bulbs are here

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What are the demarcations/what is located within the middle cranial fossa?

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Optic chiasm to sella turcica

Many cranial nerves are here

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What are the demarcations/what is located within the caudal cranial fossa?

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Cerebellum, medulla, and pons to foramen magnum

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5
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What is the Monro-Kellie Doctrine?

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Fixed cavity with CSF, brain parenchyma, and blood living in ventricles. An increase in one of these puts pressure on the others

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6
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What comes through the cribriform plate?

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Olfactory

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7
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What comes through the optic canal?

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Optic nerve

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8
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What comes through the orbital fissure?

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Oculomotor
Trochlear
Abducens
Ophthalmic branch of trigeminal

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9
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What comes through the rostral alar foramen?

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Maxillary branch of trigeminal

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What comes through the round foramen?

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Maxillary branch of trigeminal

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11
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What does through the oval foramen?

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Mandibular branch of trigeminal

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12
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What comes through the trigeminal canal?

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Trigeminal nerve

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13
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What comes through the stylomastoid foramen?

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Facial nerve

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14
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What comes through the internal acoustic meatus?

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Facial nerve

Auditory: Vestibular/cochlear

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15
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What comes through the tympano-occipital fissure?

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9, 10, 11

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16
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What comes through the jugular foramen?

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9, 10, 11

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17
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What comes through the hypoglossal canal?

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12

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18
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What comes through the foramen magnum?

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Spinal cord

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19
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What are the layers of meninges from outside to inside?

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Dura mater
Arachnoid mater
Pia mater

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20
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What is unique between between the dura mater in the skull vs the spinal cord?

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Skull is a potential space

Spinal cord is an epidural space filled with fat

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21
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Where does CSF live?

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Subarachnoid space between the arachnoid mater and pia mater

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22
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Where can you collect CSF in the dog?

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Cisternal cistern

Lumbar cistern

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23
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What does the falx cerebri do?

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Separates the cerebrum into 2 cerebral hemispheres

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24
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What vasculature structure is present in the falx cerebri?

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Dorsal sagittal sinus, which is where the arachnoid villi live (CSF reabsorbed here)

25
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What separates the cerebrum and cerebellum?

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Tentorium cerebelli

26
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What is found in the cerebrum?

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Corpus callosum
Lateral ventricle
White matter
Gray matter
Olfactory bulb/ CN 1
27
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What is found in the thalamus?

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Interthalamic adhesion
Third ventricle 
Pituitary
CN 2
Optic chiasm
Medial geniculate nucleus
Lateral geniculate nucleus
Optic tract
28
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What does the 3rd ventricle surround?

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Interthalamic ahdhesion

29
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What is found in the midbrain/mesencephalon?

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Rostral colliculi
Caudal colliculi
Tegmentum
Mesencephalic aqueduct

30
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What cranial nerves are found in the tegmentum?

31
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What makes up the metencephalon?

A

Cerebellum
Pons
4th ventricle

32
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What is found in the pons?

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Transverse fibers of the pons

CN 5

33
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What cranial nerves are found in the myelencephalon/medulla?

34
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What is found in the myelencephalon?

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Trapezoid body
Pyramids
4th ventricle

35
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What exits the lateral vertebral foramen?

A

Cervical nerve 1

36
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What exits the transverse vertebral foramen?

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Vertebral artery and vein

37
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What is unique about the C1-2 joint that sets it apart from all other intervertebral joints?

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It’s a synovial joint with no IV disc

38
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What ligaments connect C1-C2?

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Transverse ligament
Apical ligament of dens
Alar ligament
Dorsal atlanto-axial ligament
Atlanto-axial joint capsule
39
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What connects to the dorsal caudal surface of C2 in the dog?

A

Nuchal ligament

40
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Where does the nuchal ligament come from?

41
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Does the cat have a nuchal ligament?

42
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What sets C6 apart from the other cervical vertebrae?

A

Large transverse processes

43
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What process is located dorsal to an intervertebral foramen?

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Accessory process

44
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What exits/enters through an intervertebral foramen?

A

Spinal nerves

45
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What is the anticlinal space?

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The disc space between T10 and 11

46
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Why are disk extrusions less likely from T1-T10?

A

There are intercapital ligaments

47
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What does the sacrum articulate with?

A

Ilial wings
L7
Cd 1

48
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What exits the dorsal sacral foramina?

A

Dorsal branches of the first 2 sacral spinal nerves

49
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What exits the pelvic sacral foramina?

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Ventral branches of the first 2 sacral spinal nerves

50
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What ligaments connects between spinous processes?

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Interspinous ligament

Supraspinous ligament

51
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What ligament runs on the dorsal and ventral surface of the vertebral body?

A

Dorsal longitudinal ligament

Ventral longitudinal ligament

52
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What are the muscles located dorsal to the transverse processes?

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Epaxial (iliocostalis system, transversospinalis system, longissimus system)

53
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What muscles are located ventral to the vertebral body/transverse process? In the cervical vertebra?

A

Hypaxial muscles

Longus capitis, longus coli

54
Q

What are the histologic stains available to evaluate the brain?

A

H and E
Cresyl violet
Luxol fast blue
Immunohistochemistry stains (glial fibrillary acidic protein and neurofilament)

55
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What does cresol violet do?

A

Evaluate neuronal cell body numbers and features

56
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What does luxe fast blue do?

A

Stains myelin in the white matter

57
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What does glial fibrillary acidic protein do?

A

Stains astrocytes

58
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What does neurofilament do?

A

Detects neurons and their processes

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