spinal cord and brainstem TERMS

Question 1

SOMATIC

Answer 1

skin (dermis), muscles & joint structures

Question 2

SOMATOTOPY

Answer 2

stematic mapping / representation of the body in the NS

Question 3

GREY MATTER

Answer 3

nerve cell bodies, synapses & interneurons

Question 4

NUCLEI

Answer 4

groups of nerve cell bodies in the CNS

Question 5

GANGLIA

Answer 5

groups of nerve cell bodies in the PNS

Question 6

WHITE MATTER

Answer 6

nerve fibres / axons, myelinated

Question 7

COLUMN

Answer 7

Area of white matter in the spinal cord

Question 8

TRACT / FASCICULUS

Answer 8

group of similar ascending or descending nerve fibres

Question 9

LEMNISCUS

Answer 9

“ribbon”, group of homogenous axons ascending through the brainstem

Question 10

cerebral peduncles

Answer 10

cerebrum > midbrain

Question 11

pons transverse fibres

Answer 11

travell to cerebellum

Question 12

pons : basilar sulcus

Answer 12

basilar artery lies here

Question 13

superior cerebellar peduncle

Answer 13

cerebellum > midbrain

Question 14

middle cerebellar peduncle

Answer 14

cerebellum > pons

Question 15

inferior cerebellar peduncle

Answer 15

cerebellum > medulla oblonganta

Question 16

midbrain: superior colliculi

Answer 16

contain nuclei for visual map and visual reflexes

Question 17

midbrain: inferior colliculi

Answer 17

contain nuclei for auditory pathway and reflexes

Question 18

open medulla

Answer 18

opens into 4th ventricle, 4th ventricle is placed @ its back

Question 19

closed medulla

Answer 19

closed with central canal within its substancr

- central canal of medulla burried in it middle

Question 20

Gracile tubercle

Answer 20

contains the gracile nucleus where the fibres of fasciculus gracilis synapse.

Question 21

Cuneate tubercle

Answer 21

contains the cuneate nucleus where the fibres of fasciculus cuneatus synapse.