Intro and Cells
Neurogenesis
ANS
PNS
CNS Coverings
Arteries
Spinal Cord
100
Nerve impulse speed does this as diameter of a nerve fiber increases.
What is increases (becomes faster)?
100
Ectodermal cells that remain outside the neural tube are called this.
What is neural crest?
100
These are the spinal levels which the sympathetic nervous system comes from
What is T1 to L2 or L3?
100
Gamma motor neurons innervate this type of muscle fibers
What is intrafusal?
100
The middle cranial fossa is formed by these bones
What are the temporal and sphenoid bones?
100
This artery supplies blood to the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear through the internal acoustic meatus
What is the labyrinthine artery?
100
At birth, the spinal cord ends at this spinal level
What is L3?
200
This is the type of glial cells that can myelinate segments of several axons.
What is oligodendrites?
200
This is the day when the rostral neuropore should close
What is day 24?
200
This is the group of nerve fibers that release norepinephrine
What is the postganglionic nerve fibers of the sympathetic nervous system?
200
This is the neurotransmitter released at the neuromuscular junction.
What is acetylcholine?
200
This is the opening through which the internal carotid artery passes to enter the cranial vault
What is the foramen lacerum?
200
What artery is this?
What is the superior cerebellar artery?
200
The spinal cord can be divided into this many segments according to its spinal nerve roots.
What is 31?
300
Purkinje neurons in the cerebellum are characterized by this feature.
What is treelike dendrites?
300
This vessicle goes on to develop into the medulla
What is the myelencephalon?
300
This is the cranial nerve that innervates the superior oblique eye muscle
What is cranial nerve IV (trochlear)?
300
These are the two rapidly adapting sensory nerve endings
What are Meissner's corpuscles and pacinian corpuscles. *****
300
What structure is this?
What is the tentorium cerebelli?
300
This is the structure through which the ophthalmic artery passes through
What is the optic foramen?
300
Cauda equina is this type of motor neuron
What is lower motor neuron
400
Most glial cells are created in this germ cell layer.
What is the ectoderm?
400
Myelination of the CNS should complete by this age.
What is age 10?
400
Impairment of this CN would result in problems with general sensation, respiratory and GI tract, and visceral sensation.
What is CN X (Vagus)?
400
This encapsulated sensory nerve responds to muscle tension
What is golgi tendon organ?
400
These are the exits which CSF flows out from the fourth ventricle
What is the (1) median aperture (2) lateral aperture and (3) and central canal
400
This is the portion of the spinal cord which the anterior spinal artery supplies blood to
What is the whole gray matter and anterior white matter?
400
This Lamina is where the origin of the spinothalamic tract is.
What is Lamina IV?
500
This kind of synapse in the nervous system has a very small gap and is rare in mammalian nervous systems.
What is electrical synapse?
500
This is a herniation of the posterior cerebellum through the foramen magnum
What is Arnold Chiari malformation?
500
These are the cell bodies of CN VII (facial).
What are M:Facial Nucleus S:Nucleus Solitarius P Superior Salivatory Nucleus ?
500
Postganglionic fibers and slow pain receptors are classified as this group of axons.
What is group C (unmyelinated)?
500
CSF from the superior sagittal sinus drains through several sinuses into this structure
What is the internal jugular vein?
500
This is the artery that supplies the lateral surface of the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes as well as the language areas of the brain.
What is the middle cerebral artery?
500
What portion of the spinal cord is this cross section from?
What is the Thoracic segment of spinal cord?