Meninges and CSF

Question 1

What covers the CSF to separate it from the body?

Answer 1

The meninges

Question 2

What are the three layers of the meninges?

Answer 2

The pia mater, arachnoid mater and dura mater

Question 3

What fluid is within the meninges?

Answer 3

The CSF

Question 4

What is the combined function of the CSF and meninges?

Answer 4

To cushion and protect the brain

Question 5

What produces CSF?

Answer 5

The chlorid plexus

Question 6

Where does the chloroid plexus secrete stuff into?

Answer 6

Ventricles

Question 7

What is higher concentrated in the CSF than blood?

Answer 7

Na+, Cl- and Mg ions

Question 8

At what points is CSF reabsorbed into the venous circulation?

Answer 8

Arachnoid granulations

Question 9

What are the ventricles?

Answer 9

spaces within the brain linked by passageways called aqueducts that allow CSF to circulate.

Question 10

What order does the CSF flow in?

Answer 10

lateral ventricles-interventricular foramina-third ventricles-cerebral aqueduct-fourth evntrucle- medial lateral apertures and the central canal