Spinal Cord Anatomy
The nerve fibers that take motor information out of the spinal cord.
What is the ventral root?
Pituitary Gland
What structure produces a variety of hormones that regulate the endocrine system?
The outermost region of the vascular layer in the eye that contains numerous blood vessels as well as pigment cells that help absorb light.
What is the choroid?
Olfactory foramina.
The saying to remember the cranial nerve names?
What is "oh, oh, oh, to touch and feel very good velvet, ah"?
The nerve fibers that take sensory information into the spinal cord.
What is the dorsal root?
Thalamus
What structure directs incoming and outgoing information to the appropriate places?
The extension of the choroid that sits just posterior to the iris and contains structures that produce the aqueous humor and change the lens shape.
What is the cilliary body?
The small bumps/ridges located laterally on the tongue and contain taste buds.
What are the foliate papillae?
The saying to remember what type of information each cranial nerve carries.
What is "Some say 'marry money', but my brother says 'bad business, marry money'"?
C8
Pineal Gland
What structure is responsible for producing melatonin/regulating daily body rhythms?
Cells that absorb light energy and generate graded potentials to start the neural pathway of vision.
What are photoreceptors?
The cells inside the olfactory bulb that receive olfactory information from the sensory neurons.
What are the mitral cells?
(LR6SO4)3
What is the formula to remember what nerves are involved with eye muscle movements?
Spinal Nerve
What structure forms when the ventral and dorsal roots fuse and leave the vertebral column?
Superior Colliculus
What is the paired structure involved in visual reflexes?
Oval window
What is the small membrane covered, oval hole on the wall of the tympanic cavity that transfers mechanical energy into the inner ear?
The cells found in between the olfactory epithelial cells and are the receptor cells for smell.
What are the olfactory sensory neurons?
A nerve that carries motor information and enters the skull through the hypoglossal foramen.
What is the hypoglossal nerve (CN XII))?
Rami Communicans
What structure only carries autonomic motor and visceral sensory fibers?
Mammillary Body and Fornix
What two structures are involved in memory formation?
What is the gelatinous membrane found in the organ of corti that has stereocilia attached to it?
The three cranial nerves involved with taste.
What are the facial nerve (CN VIII), glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX) and vagus nerve (CN X)?
The nerve that carries both motor and sensory information involved with facial expressions and enters the skull through the stylomastoid foramen and internal acoustic meatus.
What is the facial nerve (CN VII))?