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16 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
Anterior or Rostral |
Towards the nose or head |
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Posterior or Caudal |
Toward the tail |
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Dorsal |
Toward the back |
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Ventral |
Toward the belly |
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Medial |
Towards the middle |
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Lateral |
Away from the midline |
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Midsagittal |
Cuts in the sagittal plane down the middle to divide the brain into two symmetrical halves |
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Sagittal |
Cuts perpendicular to the ground and parallel to the neuraxix (neuraxis: imaginary line running through the spinal cord to the front of the brain) |
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Coronal or frontal |
Transverse cuts or cuts perpendicular to the ground and to the sagittal plane (think of a cross section) |
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Horizontal |
Cuts parallel to the ground |
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Nuclei |
Collection of cell bodies in the CNS |
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Ganglia |
Collection of cell bodies in the PNS |
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Afferent |
Incoming axons/ information towards an area |
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Efferent |
Outgoing axons/ information away from an area |
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Contralateral |
Opposite side |
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Ipsilateral |
Same side |