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1
Q

What is the embryological order?

A

Notochord –> Neural Plate –> Neural Groove –> Neural Tube –> Neural Crest Cells`

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Cleft palata is failure of what 2 bones to fuse?

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Maxillary and palatine

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3
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Epimere controls what?

A

Dorsal, posterior mm, EXTENSORS

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4
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Hypomere controls what?

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Ventral, anterior mm, FLEXORS

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5
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What bones ossify through intramambranous ossification?

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Clavicle and all flat bones of skull

*All others are enchondral

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6
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Ventral Posteromedial thalamus receives sensory from where?

A

Face

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7
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Ventral Posterolateral thalamus receives sensory from where?

A

Arms and legs

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8
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Lateral Geniculate Thalamus receives sensory from where?

A

Eyes

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9
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Medial Geniculate Thalamus receives sensory from where?

A

Ears

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10
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What is the midline connection of hippocampus?

A

Fornix

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11
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Wernickes area is destroyed by __ deficiency and causes word blindness in __ __.

A

B1
word blindness
Can read and see, but dont understand

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12
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Caudate Ganglia secretes __. Deficiency causes what?

A

GABA

Huntongton’s

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13
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Striatum Ganglion is made up of what? What separates them?

A

Putamen
caudate
-internal capsule

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14
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Lentiform ganglion is made up of what? degeneration causes what?

A

Globus pallidus
putamen
parkinsons

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15
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Absence of Meissner’s and Auerbach’s plexus’ causes what?

A

no peristalsis and congenital megacolon

AKA Hirschprungs Dz

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16
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Damage to PICA causes what?

A

Wallenberg syndrome

-Ipsilateral loss of pain and temp to head, contralateral to body

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17
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What gives blood to Anterior 2/3 cord?

A

Anterior Spinal artery

-from both vertebrae

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18
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What gives blood to Posterior 1/3 cord?

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Posterior Spinal artery

-off radicular arteries

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19
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What drains into straight sinus? where is straight sinus?

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Great cerebral vein
in tentorium cerebelli
*Great is Straight

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20
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What goes into the Superior Sagittal Sinus?

A

Superior Cerebral Vein

*Superior is Superior

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21
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Confluens of Sinuses AKA

A

Torculus Herophilus

22
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What feeds the lumbar and sacral sections of spinal cord?

A

LArge radicular artery AKA Artery of Adam Kiewictz

23
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Epidural Herorrhage is caused by dameg to…

A

Middle Meningeal Artery

24
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Subdural Hemorrhage is caused by damage to…

A

Venous System

25
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Subarachnoid Hemorrhage is caused by damage to…

A

Beri Aneurysm (Circle of willis)

26
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Where is carotid tubercle?

27
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What does rubrispinal tract do?

A

from red nucleus of midbrain

  • proximal muscle flexors of upper and lower extremities
  • marching band muscles
28
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What does reticulospinal tract control?

A

Extensor muscles of back and arms

29
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Where is corticospinal tract? what is AKA?

A

Precentral gyrus of frontal lobe (giant cells of betz)

AKA Pyramidal tract

30
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What does lateral corticospinal tract control?

A

flexors of distal extremities

31
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What does ventral corticospinal tract control?

A

flexors of trunk

32
Q

Nucleus Dorsalis of Clarke (7) runs from where to where? Where is it in spinal cord?

A

C8-L2

Lateral horn

33
Q

Where is rexed lamina 2?

A

Substantia gelatinosa

-blocks pain

34
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Where is Rexed nucleus 9?

A

Anterior horn, alpha motor

Anterior horn, gamma motor

35
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Where is rexed lamina 10?

A

Gray commissure, central canal

36
Q

Muscle Spindle complex detects what?

A

Type 1A fibers –> Stretch (Spindle = Stretch)

37
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Golgi Tendon Organ detects what?

A

Type 1B fibers –> Tension (Tendon = Tension)

38
Q

What tract controls response to light and sound?

A

Tectospinal

39
Q

Substantia nigra makes __ for the __

A

dopamine

thalamus

40
Q

What is insertion of Temporalis?

A

Coronoid of Mandible

41
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What is origin and insertion of Masseter?

A

O: Zygomatic
I: External Angle of Jaw

42
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External/lateral pterygoid insertion? Action?

A

Disc of TMJ
ONLY MUSCLE THAT OPENS THE JAW
-can say open/ depresses/ protrudes

43
Q

Mneumonic for muscles of mastication

A 
TIME
Temporalis
Internal/ Medial Pterygoid
Masseter
External/ Lateral Pterygoid
44
Q

What are the parasympathetic nerves?

A

CN 3, 7, 9, 10

S2-4 (Pelvis Splanchnic)

45
Q

What is nucleus solitarius?

A

CN 7, 9, 10

  • greatest input into parasympathetics
  • why people eat when stressed
46
Q

Disruption of cervical chain ganglion leads to what?

A

Horner’s syndrome

  • ptosis, miosis, anhydrosis
  • pancoast tumor
47
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What is greater splanchnic nerve composed of?

A

T5-9 –> Celiac Plexus –> Digestion

48
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Where is lesser splanchnic N? What does it control?

A

T10-11

kidneys, adrenals

49
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What is the purple pigment?

50
Q

What is MCC of blindness in the elderly?

A

Macular degeneration

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