Coloring Book Terms Exam 1

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Central Nervous System

(CNS)

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The part of the vertebrate nervous system that is located WITHIN the skull and spine.

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Peripheral Nervous System

(PNS)

Back 2

The part of the vertebrate nervous system that is located OUTSIDE the skull and spine.

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Cervical Region

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The section of the spine that provides the flexible framework of the neck or cervix; it lies between the skull and the thoracic region.

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Thoracic Region

Back 4

The section of the spine to which the ribs are attached;it lies between the cervical and the lumbar regions.

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Lumbar Region

Back 5

The section of the spine that supports the small of the back; it lies between the thoracic region and the sacral region.

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Sacral Region

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The section of the spine to which the bones of the pelvis ate attached; it lies adjacent to the lumbar region

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Brain

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The part of the central nervous system that is located in the skull

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Spinal Cord

Back 8

The part of the central nervous system that is located in the spine

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Somatic Nervous System

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The division of the peripheral nervous system that interacts with the external environment; t conducts sensory signals to the CNS from external receptors and receptors in joints and skeletal muscles, and it conducts motor signals from the CNS to skeletal muscles

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Autonomic Nervous System

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The division of the peripheral nervous system that participates n the regulation of the body's internal environment; it conducts sensory signals to the CNS from receptions in internal organs, and motor signals from the CNS back to the same internal organs

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horizontal sections

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slices of the brain that are cut in a horizontal plane, that is, cut parallel to the horizon when the subject is in an upright position

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Sagittal sections

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slices that are cut parallel to the vertical plane that divides the brain into left and right halves

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midsagittal section

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a sagittal cut that is cut from the very midline of the brain

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coronal sections

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cut approximately parallel to the surface of the face

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cross sections

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sections that are cut at right angles to the long axis of any long narrow structure, for example, at right angles to the long axis of the spinal cord.

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anterior

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toward the nose end; aka rostral

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posterior

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toward the tail end; aka caudal

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dorsal

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toward the surface of the back or top of the head

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ventral

Back 19

toward the surface of the chest and stomach or bottom of the head

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medial

Back 20

toward the midsagittal plane

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lateral

Back 21

away from the midsaggital plane; toward the left and right

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superior

Back 22

toward the dorsal surface of the primate head

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inferior

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toward the ventral surface of the primate head

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unilateral

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on one side of the body

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bilateral

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on both sides of the body

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ipsilateral

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from or to the same side of the body

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contralateral

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from or to the opposite side of the body

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cerebral hemisphere

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the two large neural structures that sit atop the vertebrate brain stem, one on the left and one on the right; they mediate complex psychological processes

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Brain stem

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the central neural stem on which the two cerebral hemispheres sit; many brain stem structures play key roles in the regulation of the body's inner environment

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Telencephalon

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the cerebral hemispheres; one of the two divisions of the forebrain (the other one is the diencephalon)

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Diencephalon

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the region of the brain between the telencephalon and the mesencephalon; one of the two divisions of the forebrain (the other is the telencephalon); the most anterior region of the brain stem

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Mesencephalon

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the midbrain; the region of the brain stem between the deincephalon and the metencephalon

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Metencephalon

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the region of the brain stem between the mesencephalon and the spinal cord; one of the two divisions of the hindbrain (the other is the metencephalon)

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Dura mater

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the outermost and toughest of the three meninges

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Arachnoid membrane

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the middle menynx' it has the texture of a gauze like spider web.

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Pia Mater

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the innermost and most delicate of the three meninges; it adheres to the surface of the CNS

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Subarachnoid Space

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the space between the main part of the arachnoid membrane and the pia mater; it contain cerebrospinal fluid, the web-like processes of the arachnoid layeer and many blood vessels

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Cerebrospinal fluid

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the fluid that fills both the subarachnoid space and the hollow core of the brain and spinal cord, it supports, nourishes and cushions the central nervous system

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Central Canal

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the cerebrospinal-fluid-filled internal space that runs the length of the spinal cord

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lateral ventricles

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the ventricles of the left and right cerebral hemispheres; they are the largest of the four cerebral ventricles

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third ventricle

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the cerebral ventricle of the diencephalon; it is a ventrical sheet-shaped chamber that lies along the midline.

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Fourth Ventricle

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the cerebral ventricle of the metencephalon; it connects the cerebral aqueduct and the central canal

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Cerebral aqueduct

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the narrow channel that connects the third and fourth venticles; most of it is located in the mesencephalon