Make a Brain Flashcards
What are the primary brain vesicles?
Prosencenphalon (forebrain), Mesencephalon (midbrain), Rhombencephalon (hindbrain)
What did the rod represent?
Neural canal
What is rostral?
Cranial - toward Cerebral cortex
What is the inferior colliculus?
Nucleus of the auditory pathway in midbrain
What is the lamina terminals?
The ears on the end of the clay model - it covers the medial part of the forebrain
What is the flexure between the diencephalon and the mesencephalon?
Cephalic flexure
What is the flexure between the spinal cord and mylencephalon?
Cervical flexure
What is the flexure between the myelencephalon and the metencephalon?
Pontine flexure
What is the lateral fissure also known as?
Sylvian fissue
What are the inter ventricular foramina?
They connect the ventricle system - lateral to third to fourth.
What does the third ventricle separate?
Two thalami and hypothalamus
What structures are supratentorial?
Cerebrum - anything about the tentorium cerebelli
What are the order of flexures from front to back?
Cephalic, pontine, cervical
