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What do nerve cells consist of?

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Dendrites (branched projections)
Body (contains the nucleus)
Axon/ nerve fibre (covered by myelin sheath)

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What carries action potentials from the nerve cell?

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the axon/ nerve fibre

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What receives/ conducts information to the nerve cell?

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Dendrites

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What happens in a ganglion in the PNS?

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One nerve fibre synapses onto another neurone’s cell body

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Why must synapses occur in the ganglion in the PNS?

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As this is where cell bodies are found

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What is a synapse?

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Where one neurone communicates with another neurone in a ganglion in the PNS or in a nucleus in the CNS
Here, the electrical AP becomes a chemical signal (neurotransmitter
) and then becomes an AP again

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In the brain, what is a sulcus?

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A depression or groove on the surface of the brain

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In the brain, what is a gyrus?

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A ridge on the surface of the brain

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What are the four lobes of each cerebral hemisphere?

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Named according to the cranial bone that they lie deep to.

Occipital, parietal, frontal, temporal

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What is grey matter?

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The outermost layer of the cerebral cortex, full of cell bodies

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What is white matter?

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Deep to the grey matter, contains many axons which are myelinated, giving the white appearance

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How is the grey and white material arranged in the spinal cord?

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The opposite to how it is in the brain - white matter is superficial and grey matter is deep

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What is CN I? Is it sensory, motor or both?

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Olfactory nerve

Sensory

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What is CN II? Is it sensory, motor or both?

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Optic nerve

Sensory

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What is CN III? Is it sensory, motor or both?

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Oculomotor nerve

Motor

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What is CN IV? Is it sensory, motor or both?

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Trochlear nerve

Motor

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What is CN V? Is it sensory, motor or both?

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Trigeminal nerve

Both

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What is CN VI? Is it sensory, motor or both?

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Abducens nerve

Motor

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What is CN VII? Is it sensory, motor or both?

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Facial nerve

Both

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What is CN VIII? Is it sensory, motor or both?

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Vestibulocochlear nerve

Sensory

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What is CN IX? Is it sensory, motor or both?

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Glossopharyngeal nerve

Both

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What is CN X? Is it sensory, motor or both?

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Vagus nerve

Both

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What is CN XI? Is it sensory, motor or both?

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Spinal Accessory nerve

Motor

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What is CN XII? Is it sensory, motor or both?

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Hypoglossal nerve

Motor

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Which foramen does CN I enter the brain through?
Cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone
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Which foramen does CN II enter the brain through?
Optic canal
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Which foramen does CN III, CN IV, CN V1 and CN VI leave the brain through?
Superior orbital fissure CN V1 is both sensory and motor so enters and leaves the brain through this
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Which foramen does CN V2 leave/enter the brain through?
Foramen rotundum
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Which foramen does CN V3 leave/enter the brain through?
Foramen ovale
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Which foramen do CN VII and VIII go through?
Internal acoustic meatus
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Which foramen do CN IX, X and XI leave the brain through?
Jugular foramen
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Which foramen does CN XII leave the brain through?
Hypoglossal canal
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What leaves the brain through the foramen magnum?
Spinal cord
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Where are the two enlargements of the spinal cord?
Cervical | Lumbosacral
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Where does the spinal cord end?
Inferiorly at L1/L2 intervertebral disc level | Adult vertebral column is longer then the adult spinal cord
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How do lumbar and sacral spinal nerves leave the vertebral column? (seeing as the spinal cord ends at L1/L2)
They have to descend in the vertebral canal to their respective intervertebral foraminae
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What are the spinal nerves?
``` 8 pairs of cervical (C1 to C8) 12 pairs of thoracic (T1-T12) 5 pairs of lumbar spinal nerves (L1-L5) 5 pairs of sacral spinal nerves (S1-S5) 1 pair of coccygeal spinal nerves (Co) ```
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How are spinal nerves named?
According to the vertebrae above it EXCEPT in the cervical region where they are named according to the vertebrae below it
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What do spinal nerves supply?
``` The soma (body wall) Each pair supplies one strip of the soma ```
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Where are spinal nerves located?
ONLY within the intervertebral foraminae
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From the intervertebral foraminae what do the spinal nerves connect with?
Structures of the soma via rami | The spinal cord via roots and rootlets
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What do posterior rami supply?
The posterior paramedian strip
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What do anterior rami supply?
The remainder of the posterior part of the strip, the lateral and the anterior parts of the strips Supply all the limbs via a plexus - no rami in the limbs
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True or False - the posterior rami is bigger than the anterior.
False | The anterior rami is always bigger as it supplies more
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What is a dermatome?
An area/strip of skin supplied by both the anterior and posterior rami of a spinal nerve
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Where is the T4 dermatome?
male nipple
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Where is the T10 dermatome?
umbilicus
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What is a nerve plexus?
Networks of intertwined anterior rami
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What does mixing of anterior rami via plexuses result in?
Less predictable shapes of the limb segments
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What is the cervical plexus?
C1-C4 anterior rami | Posterior scalp, neck wall, diaphragm
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What is the brachial plexus?
C5-T1 anterior rami | Upper limb
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What is the lumbar plexus?
L1-L4 anterior rami | Lower limb
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What is the sacral plexus?
L5-S4 anterior rami | Lower limb, gluteal region and perineum
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What are the 5 named nerves of the brachial plexus?
``` Axillary nerve Median nerve Musculocutaneous nerve Radial nerve Ulnar nerve ``` Containing various mixes of the original 5 spinal nerves' axons (C5,6,7,8,T1)
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Describe sympathetic outflow.
1. Originates from autonomic centres in the brain 2. Passes down spinal cord in spinal cord lateral grey columns (lateral horns) 3. Exits spinal cord with T1-L2 spinal nerves, in anterior rootlets/root (T1-L2 are the only segments of the spinal cord that have lateral horns) 4. Travel to sympathetic chains running the length of vertebral column - paravertebral ganglion of the right sympathetic trunk 5. Pass into all spinal nerves (anterior and posterior rami) and 'hitch a ride' 6. Pass into splanchnic nerves to eventually supply organs
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What does the sympathetic axon leave the spinal cord in?
Anterior rootlets/root
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How do parasympathetic axons leave the CNS?
Via cranial nerves III, VII, IX and X and via sacral spinal nerves (craniosacral outflow)

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