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15 Cards in this Set
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Whats the purpose of the longitudinal cerebral fissure?
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Seperates the brian into righ and left hemispheres.
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Where is the transverese fissure?
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Its the deep cleft that seperates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
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What are sulcis?
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The shawllow grooves between the folds.
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What are Gyri?
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The small folds on the cerebrum.
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Where is the lateral cerebral sulcus?
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Seperates the frontal lobe form the temporal lobe.
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What occurs in the occipital lobes?
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All visual processing occurs here.
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What ocuurs in the temporal lobes?
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Any ear and nose stuff occurs here.
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What occurs in the parietal lobe?
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Sensory understanding occurs here - Understanding speech.
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What is the function of the cerebellum?
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Its function is to regualte posture and balance. and to evaluate how wells movements initiated in the cerebrum are actually being carried out.
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What is the function of the Pons?
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1. Helps to control the breathing rate.
2. aka the bridge, it connects the parts of the brain with one another. |
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What is the function of the medulla oblongata?
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It holds all the sensory ascending and motor descending tracts.
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What is the bulge in the medulla oblongata?
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The ducassation of the pyramids.
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What does the ducassation do?
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It explains why each side of the brain controls the opposite side of the body.
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What are 3 functions of the medulla?
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Cardiovascular center - Reg. force of heartbeat.
Medullar Rhythym Center - basic breathing. Refelxes for coughing, swallowing vomting are here. |
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What does the Pit. Galnd do?
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Regulates pituaitary hormones.
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