The imaginary line drawn through the CNS from the base of the spinal cord to the front of the brain.
What is the neuraxis?
This fissure separates the temporal lobe from the frontal and parietal lobes.
What is the "Lateral" Fissure?
This part of the midbrain processes pain messages.
What is the Periaqueductal Gray Matter?
The 4 main purposes of the Cerebrospinal Fluid.
What are buoyancy, protection, the providing of nutrients, and waste removal?
Packaging of the proteins that are produced is performed by these.
What are the Golgi Bodies?
Toward the back. The top of the brain is also considered to be this, because it has that position in 4-legged animals.
What is dorsal?
This area of the brain assists with the interpretation/understanding of language.
What is Wernicke's Area?
There are_______ Cranial Nerves in the __________ Nervous System.
What are 12 and Peripheral?
The 3rd and 4th Ventricles are connected via this.
What is the Cerebral Aqueduct?
Waste removal is performed by these.
What are Lysosomes?
This is toward the front end. And, this is toward the midline.
What is rostral? And, what is medial?
What are the Cerebral Cortex, the Limbic System, and the Basal Ganglia?
The Dorsal nerves of the spinal cord are ______________ and ______________-.
What are sensory and afferent (ascending)?
The cell's plasma membrane is a _______________ bilayer, that allows oxygen, carbon dioxide, water, and ______________-soluble substances into the cell.
What are "phospholipid" and "lipid-"?
Energy for the cell is provided by these.
What are Mitochondria?

Plane of section as shown above.
What is the Coronal Plane of Section?
This part of the midbrain contains the Superior and Inferior Colliculi.
What is the "Tectum?"
The Blood-Brain Barrier, made possible by these glial cells, stimulates blood vessels to form______________ to keep harmful substances out of the brain and spinal cord.
What are Astrocytes and tight junctions?
Water-soluble substances must be ____________ and enter the cell via _____________.
What are "ionized" and "protein channels?"
The parts of the neuron responsible for receiving neural messages from other neurons are ____________ and the ___________.
What are dendrites and soma, in that order?
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Plane of section as shown above.
What is the Horizontal Plane of Section?
When the dopamine neurons in this area of the midbrain are damaged and produce less dopamine, this disease may result.
What are Substantia nigra and Parkinson's disease?
What are the Pia Mater, Arachnoid Mater, and Dura Mater?
The "Conveyor Belt" that transports protein and other substances through the cell is known as this.
What are the "Microtubules?"
The 20-40 nanometer-wide space between the terminal button of the sending neuron to the receptors on the receiving neuron is known as this.
What is the Synaptic Cleft?