Week 1: Station 7 - Ventricles and CSF

Question 1

What embryological structures are the ventricles formed from?

Answer 1

Neural canal of the vesicles

Question 2

What ventricle is this?

Answer 2

Lateral ventricle

Question 3

Answer 3

Question 4

In which part of the brain does the anterior horn of the lateral ventricle lie?

Answer 4

Cerebrum (frontal lobe)

Question 5

In which part of the brain does the body of the lateral ventricle lie?

Answer 5

Parietal lobe

Question 6

In which part of the brain does the posterior horn of the lateral ventricle lie?

Answer 6

Occipital lobe

Question 7

In which part of the brain does the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle lie?

Answer 7

Temporal lobe

Question 8

Summary diagram of lateral ventricle

Question 9

What joins the lateral and 3rd ventricles?

Answer 9

The foramen of monroe

Question 10

Where does the 3rd ventricle lie?

Answer 10

Diencephalon

Question 11

What connects the 3rd and 4th ventricles?

Answer 11

Cerebral aqueduct

Question 12

Where is the 4th ventricle?

Answer 12

Caudal medulla

Question 13

What generates CSF?

Answer 13

Choroid plexus in the walls of the ventricles

Question 14

How does the CSF from the 4th ventricle enter the subarachnoid space?

Answer 14

Through the lateral and medial apertures

Through the central canal of the spinal cord

Question 15

Where is CSF reabsorbed back into the general circulation?

Answer 15

Dural venous sinuses via arachnoid granulations