Morphology (Part 2)

Question 1

What type of fibers are found within the efferent white matter of the spinal chord?

Answer 1

Motor

Question 2

What type of fibers are found within the afferent white matter of the spinal chord?

Answer 2

Somatosensory

Question 3

What is the name of the caudal end of the spinal chord?

Answer 3

Conus Medularis

Question 4

What is the name of the nerves exiting the conus medularis?

Answer 4

Cauda Equina

Question 5

The pia mater extends caudally from the tip of the conus medullares as a strand (____) to join with a dural filament that attaches to the____.

Answer 5

• filame terminale

- coccyx

Question 6

What is the opercular area?

Answer 6

The opercular area consists of the parts of the frontal, parietal and temporal lobes that cover the insular lobe.

Question 7

Where is the location Broca’s motor speech area?

Answer 7

(left hemisphere, area 45 = pars triangularis AND area 44 = pars opercularis).

Question 8

Where is Wernicke’s receptive speech area?

Answer 8

(left hemisphere, posterior portion of area 22 (including planum temporale).

Question 9

Where is the location of the primary motor cortex?

Answer 9

(area 4, precentral gyrus)

Question 10

What is the location of the primary somatosensory cortex?

Answer 10

(areas 3,1,2, postcentral gyrus)

Question 11

What is the Fornix?

Answer 11

a large bundle of axons yielding an arc from the hippocampal formation to the hypothalamic mammillary body that constitutes part of the limbic circuitry.