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W1: Topography Of Brain And Spinal Cord Flashcards

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What is the Neurocranium?

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Contains and protects the brain

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What is the pterion?

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Where the frontal, parietal, temporal and sphenoid bone meet.

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Why is the pterion an important landmark?

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It’s fragile, so if someone receives an injury to it, it can be broken. The artery that passes deep to this point is the middle meningeal artery - this can be damaged.

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What is the viscerocranium?

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Bony framework of the face. Contains the organs.

Zombies Punch My Very Manly Nose In

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5
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What bones make up the hard palate?

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Maxillary bone and palatine bone

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What are the fossa divided into?

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Anterior cranial fossa, middle cranial fossa, posterior cranial fossa

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What CN leaves the skull through the cribiform plate of the ethmoid bone?

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CNVI olfactory nerve

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What CN leaves the skull through the optic canal?

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CNII optic nerve

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What CN leaves the skull through the superior orbital fissure?

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CNIII, CNIV, CNV1, CNVI

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What CN leaves the skull through the foramen rotundum?

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CNV2

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What CN leaves the skull through the foramen ovale?

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CNV3

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What CN leaves the skull through the internal acoustic meatus?

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CNVII, CNVIII

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What CN leaves the skull through the jugular foramen?

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CNIX, CNX, CNXI

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What CN leaves the skull through the hypoglossal canal?

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CNXII

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15
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What does the CNS consist of?

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Brain and spinal cord

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What does the PNS consist of?

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All nervous tissue outside CNS, spinal nerves and cranial nerves

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17
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How many cerebral hemispheres are there?

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2, right and left

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18
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What is the frontal lobe responsible for?

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Planning and command of movement

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What is the parietal lobe responsible for?

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Sensory processes from body and organs

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20
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What is the occipital lobe responsible for?

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Visual processes

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What is the temporal lobe responsible for?

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Auditory processes

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22
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What are sulci?

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A sulcus is a depression in the brain

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What are gyri?

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A gyrus is a bridge

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What is the central sulcus?

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Separates the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe.

Separates the pre central gyrus (primary motor cortex) and the post central gyrus (primary sensory cortex)

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What is the lateral fissure?

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Separates the temporal lobe from the parietal and frontal lobe

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What is the longitudinal fissure?

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Separates the 2 cerebral hemispheres. Seen in coronal view

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27
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Difference between a fissure and sulcus?

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A fissure is deeper than a sukcus

28
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What makes up the brainstem?

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Midbrain, pons, medulla

29
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How is the cerebellum attached to the brainstem?

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Through the inferior, middle and superior peduncles.

30
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What is the corpus callosum?

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A bridge/connection between hemispheres. White matter in coronal view.

31
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How is grey and white matter arranged in the brain?

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Grey on outside, white on inside

32
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What is grey matter?

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Collection of cell bodies

33
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What is white matter?

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Myelinated axons

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Lateral sulcus

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A sulcus in the coronal view

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Role of the cerebellum

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Responsible for coordinating voluntary movements.

36
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What are the 2 cerebellum hemispheres separated by?

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The vermis in the midline. Posterior and anterior lobes.

37
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What are ventricles?

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Spaces within the CNS that produce CSF.

38
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How many lateral ventricles are there?

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2, one in left hemisphere and one in right hemisphere

39
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What other ventricles are there?

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Third and fourth ventricles

40
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What is CSF?

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Cerebrospinal fluid is found within the ventricles and all around the brain and spinal cord, nourishing and protecting the nervous system.

41
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What are the meninges?

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3 membranous layers

Dura mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater (outside to inside)

42
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What is the falx cerebri?

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The dura mater folds to separate the left and right cerebral hemispheres.

43
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What is the tentorium cerebelli?

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Separates the cerebral hemispheres from the cerebral hemispheres.

44
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What is a sinus?

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Where venous blood passes through. Spaces between 2 layers of dura mater. NOT VEINS.

45
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Which layer contains the blood vessels?

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The arachnoid mater

46
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What is a subdural haematoma?

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Shown on the MRI

Shifts the brain away from the midline.

47
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Where is CSF produced?

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Choroid plexus, mostly in lateral ventricles

48
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How does the CSF circulate?

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Through the ventricular system from lateral ventricles into the third ventricle into the fourth ventricle, out into subarachnoid space, surrounding CNS. Reabsorbed by arachnoid granulations - outcroppings in the venous sinuses in the dura mater.

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Function of CSF

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Protection, nourishment and waste removal

50
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Vertebral column parts

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Cervical (7), thoracic (12), lumbar (5) sacrum, coccyx vertebra

51
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What passes through the vertebral column?

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The spinal cord

52
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When does the spinal cord begin?

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After the brainstem

53
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How is grey and white matter arranged in the spinal cord?

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Outer layer is white matter, inner is grey matter

GreyH shape

54
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Why are there different shapes through the vertebra?

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Cervical and lumbar are enlarged.

In cervical region we will find the formation of a plexus (network of nerves), cervical and brachial plexii

55
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What does the cervical plexus innervate?

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Structures in the head and neck

56
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What does the brachial plexus innervate?

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Upper limbs

57
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Is the spinal cord surrounded by meninges?

58
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Where do the spinal nerves exit?

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The intervertebral foramina

59
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Where does information travel through in the spinal cord?

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The myelinated axons - white matter - periphery of the spinal cord
Ascending and descending tracts

60
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What is an ascending tract?

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Information travels from the outside upto the brain - sensory

61
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What is a descending tract?

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Information travels from the brain out - motor information

62
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Difference between cell bodies in PNS and CNS

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CNS cell bodies = nuclei

PNS cell bodies = ganglia

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Cervical plexus roots

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Brachial plexus roots

65
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Nerves of the brachial plexus

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Musculocutaneous nerve (C5-C7)
Median nerve (C6-C8,T1)
Radial nerve (C5-C8,T1)
Ulnar nerve (C7,C8,T1)
66
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Nerves of the cervical plexus

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Cutaneous nerves

Phrenic nerve

67
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Lumbosacral plexus

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T12-L4 = lumbar plexus
L4-S4 = sacral plexus

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