Lab Practical Flashcards
What are the 3 sections of the skull?
Rostral cranial fossa
Middle cranial ofssa
Caudal cranial fossa
What are the demarcations/what is located within the rostral cranial fossa?
Everything from cribriform plate to optic chiasm
Olfactory bulbs are here
What are the demarcations/what is located within the middle cranial fossa?
Optic chiasm to sella turcica
Many cranial nerves are here
What are the demarcations/what is located within the caudal cranial fossa?
Cerebellum, medulla, and pons to foramen magnum
What is the Monro-Kellie Doctrine?
Fixed cavity with CSF, brain parenchyma, and blood living in ventricles. An increase in one of these puts pressure on the others
What comes through the cribriform plate?
Olfactory
What comes through the optic canal?
Optic nerve
What comes through the orbital fissure?
Oculomotor
Trochlear
Abducens
Ophthalmic branch of trigeminal
What comes through the rostral alar foramen?
Maxillary branch of trigeminal
What comes through the round foramen?
Maxillary branch of trigeminal
What does through the oval foramen?
Mandibular branch of trigeminal
What comes through the trigeminal canal?
Trigeminal nerve
What comes through the stylomastoid foramen?
Facial nerve
What comes through the internal acoustic meatus?
Facial nerve
Auditory: Vestibular/cochlear
What comes through the tympano-occipital fissure?
9, 10, 11
What comes through the jugular foramen?
9, 10, 11
What comes through the hypoglossal canal?
12
What comes through the foramen magnum?
Spinal cord
11
What are the layers of meninges from outside to inside?
Dura mater
Arachnoid mater
Pia mater
What is unique between between the dura mater in the skull vs the spinal cord?
Skull is a potential space
Spinal cord is an epidural space filled with fat
Where does CSF live?
Subarachnoid space between the arachnoid mater and pia mater
Where can you collect CSF in the dog?
Cisternal cistern
Lumbar cistern
What does the falx cerebri do?
Separates the cerebrum into 2 cerebral hemispheres